
PACT Notes
October 5th, 2018
Current Tobacco Smoking, Quit Attempts, and Knowledge About Smoking Risks Among Persons Aged ≥15 Years – Global Adult Tobacco Survey, 28 Countries, 2008-2016
|
![]() |
Age to Purchase Tobacco Products to Move up to 21 in Harrison, AR
|
![]() |
LUNG FORCE Advocacy Day 2019: Share Your Voice
|
![]() The American Lung Association is looking for LUNG FORCE Heroes for Advocacy Day. LUNG FORCE Heroes include lung cancer patients, loved ones of a lung cancer patient, caregiver to a lung cancer patient, etc. Participants must be able to come to Washington for training beginning on Monday, April 8 and return home on Thursday, April 11, and be willing to share their story with LUNG FORCE, the media and their Members of Congress.
One person in Pennsylvania will be selected to attend. If you would like to be considered to represent Pennsylvania please contact Sarah Lawver.
|
PACT Notes
PACT Notes – December 21, 2018
A new study found that increases in adolescent vaping from 2017 to 2018 were the largest ever recorded in the past 43 years for any adolescent substance use outcome in the U.S.
In just one year e-cigarette use among youth has skyrocketed, increasing by:
90% among 12th graders
96% among 10th graders
74% among 8th graders
PACT Notes – December 14, 2018
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the landmark 1998 legal settlement between the states and the tobacco companies, which required the companies to pay more than $200 billion over time as compensation for tobacco-related health care costs.
The report challenges states to do more to fight tobacco use – the nation’s No. 1 preventable cause of death – and to confront the growing epidemic of youth e-cigarette use in America. In Pennsylvania, 8.7 percent of high school students smoke cigarettes, while 11.3 percent use e-cigarettes. Tobacco use claims 22,000 Pennsylvania lives and costs the state $6.3 billion in health care bills annually.
PACT Notes – December 7, 2018
This week Senator Mario Scavello (PA-40) released a co-sponsorship memo for Tobacco 21. He is actively looking for support in the Senate and plans to introduce legislation in the session starting in the new year. While PACT is still advising that advocates wait until the new year to start their legislative visits, if you have any connections with Senators you think might be interested in support please reach out to PACT and we are happy to connect them with Senator Scavello’s Office.