SFMS Champions Tobacco Regulation at August Lobby Day On August 26, 2015, three SFMS physician members joined over a hundred health care workers, and patient advocates at a daylong rally at the Capitol in Sacramento in support of the six tobacco control bills heard during the Special Extraordinary Session on Healthcare 2015 convened by Governor Brown. September 2, 2015 Advocacy, SFMS Member John Maa, Renee Fogelberg, Laura Davies, Save Lives California, SFMS advocacy, tobacco, tobacco tax 0 0 Comment Read More »
Package of Tobacco Bills Reintroduced to Raise Smoking Age, Regulate e-Cigarettes SFMS and CMA join our Save Lives California coalition partners to applaud California lawmakers reintroduced a package of six tobacco bills this week to fight the No. 1 cause of preventable death in California: tobacco use. July 17, 2015 Advocacy, CMA, News, Public Health e-cigarettes, Save Lives California, tobacco, tobacco legislation 0 0 Comment Read More »
IOM Study Supports Raising Tobacco-Purchase Age to 21 New study released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) said that raising the smoking age to 21 could reduce smoking by as much as 12% in the next generation and cut smoking-related deaths by nearly 10%. March 13, 2015 News, Public Health Institute of Medicine, IOM, SB 151, smoking, tobacco 0 0 Comment Read More »
