Seven-time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance
Armstrong is joining the fight to fund cancer research
in California and save lives.read more »
New Analysis Released By The Campaign For Tobacco Free
Kids Finds That Initiative Would Save 64,500 Lives In Southern California And Prevent 142,500 Area Children From Smokingread more »
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will launch
a campaign in support of the California Cancer Research Act, which would add a $1 tax to tobacco products.read more »
Sacramento- Today, the Secretary of State’s office announced that the California Cancer Research
Act qualified for the next statewide ballot. The coalition
of the American Cancer
Society, American Lung Association, American Heart
Association, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids and the
Livestrong Foundation, with support from former Senate
Pro Temp Don Perata, submitted signatures for verification
in June.read more »
FINALLY, CALIFORNIA voters are getting another shot
at a tobacco tax.Thanks to the 634,722 registered voters who signed on in support, truckloads
of petitions were turned into the state on Wednesday
to get the California Cancer Research Act on the ballot.read more »
Backers of a state initiative that would increase
cigarette taxes by $1 a pack to provide more than $500 million a year to
prevent, detect and treat cancer said today that they
have gathered
enough signatures to put it on the ballot in 2012.read more »
The California Cancer Research Act, which supporters
are
attempting to qualify for the 2012 ballot, would spend $500 million to
find ways to prevent, detect and treat cancer, as well
as raise the
cigarette tax by $1 per pack to fund tobacco education efforts, Don
Perata (D), former Senate President Pro Tempore and current Oakland
mayoral candidate, writes in a San Jose Mercury News
opinion
piece.read more »
