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ACS CAN Volunteers Write Letters-to-the-Editors About Historic Victory Against Big Tobacco

December 19, 2017

“Tobacco companies have been lying to consumers, and it is finally time for them to come clean,” says American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network volunteer Karen McKay in a letter-to-the-editor to the St. Louis Post Dispatch.

Karen’s letter-to-the-editor was one of many that ACS CAN volunteers wrote to newspapers around the country.

More than a decade after a lawsuit won by the American Cancer Society and other plaintiffs and after years of delays by Big Tobacco, tobacco companies finally had to come clean about the dangers of smoking.

Starting November 24, 2017, and lasting nearly an entire year, tobacco companies are running advertisements in major newspapers and on television stations around the country.

Read more letters-to-the-editor from ACS CAN volunteers:

“Truth, yet deceit from Big Tobacco,” by Ethel Ricci to the Warwick Beacon in Warwick, Rhode Island.

“Cigarette companies forced to make honest statements,” by Ryan Strik to the Providence Journal in Providence, Rhode Island.

“Support tobacco tax increase,” by Terry Martin in to the North Plate Telegraph in Omaha, Nebraska.

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