National Working Group for ACTTION

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The National Working Group for ACTTION is focused on drawing more attention to and driving solutions around the need for expanded consumer access to evidence-based treatments that can help more tobacco users quit.

 

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One in five adult Americans smokes or uses some form of tobacco. This causes or complicates many of the Nation’s most common and costly chronic diseases (e.g., cancer, heart and lung disease, stroke, asthma) and results in the annual deaths of over 400,000 people every year.

We are failing as a nation to provide the treatment that is needed to help these people quit their addiction to tobacco. Beyond the physical costs, failing to help people quit takes an economic toll – over $180 billion every year – a toll that U.S. taxpayers, investors and business owners can no longer afford in today’s uncertain economic environment.

This is due to a combination of factors, not the least of which is the failure of public and private policies to give tobacco users full access to all the tools they need to quit. Our failure to act is costing us precious lives and money. We can and we must do better.

Due to the magnitude of the problem and the critical need for immediate action, nearly two dozen of the nation’s leading business, government and health care leaders have come together to support and implement a multi-sector Call for ACTTION to dramatically increase access to the comprehensive treatments tobacco users need to help them quit. This Call for ACTTION includes a number of specific recommendations for all sectors of society – including policymakers, employers, insurers, and public health officials - that incorporate and expand upon the three focus areas cited above.

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