Latest American Legacy Foundation Stories
Cheryl G. Healton, DrPH, Departing for New York University WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Legacy Board of Directors has launched a national search for the organization's next president and CEO, board chairman and Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said today. Cheryl G. Healton, DrPH, who has led the foundation throughout its first fourteen years, informed the board in June 2012, that she will be departing Legacy in January, 2014, to join the faculty at...
Statement from Cheryl G. Healton, DrPH, President and CEO of Legacy WASHINGTON, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As anticipated, Judge Richard Leon of the DC District Court ruled this afternoon that the Food and Drug Administration's required graphic warning labels violate the First Amendment rights of the tobacco companies, constituting "compelled speech." Siding with Big Tobacco, Leon ruled the images were "neither factual nor accurate." The bizarre finding contradicts...
Statement by Legacy Applauds Joint Motion to Make Important Documents More Accessible to the Public WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As part of the remedy phase of the largest civil racketeering case in the nation's history, the U.S. Department of Justice, Altria Group, Philip Morris USA and RJ Reynolds today filed a proposed consent order with a federal district court designed to make once secret tobacco documents more accessible to the public. If the order...
Jeff Staple brings his "positive social contagion" to youth smoking prevention cause WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The next phase of truth fashion will see bold designs and the prestige of one of the world's leading designers. Designer, artist and entrepreneur Jeff Staple is producing a limited edition, premium line for the truth youth smoking prevention campaign. The "truth1585 Collection" will be available in some of the nation's trendiest specialty...
Take Charge of Addiction by Making a Plan to Quit WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During November's Lung Cancer Awareness Month, the Great American Smokeout serves as another important reminder about the deadly addiction of tobacco that impacts the 45 million Americans who smoke. In 2010, approximately 69 percent of smokers said they wanted to quit, but only about six percent of smokers were successful long-term. EX® offers a free way to seek help and break the...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the heels of new research released just last week from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finding that nearly 69% of smokers want to quit but only 6% succeeded last year, a new campaign called Blueprint to Quit is being launched today, teaming discounted online behavioral support and nicotine replacement therapies (NRTs). GlaxoSmithKline is offering this program exclusively at Walmart stores around the...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Legacy, the nation's largest public health organization dedicated to preventing teens from smoking and providing resources to smokers who want to quit, announced the appointment of Ritney Castine as Youth Board Liaison to its Board of Directors. Every 18 months, Legacy selects a Youth Board Liaison from a group of tobacco control youth advocates who have previously or are currently serving the organization. (Logo:...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Honorable Lawrence G. Wasden, Attorney General of the State of Idaho, has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of Legacy®, the national public health organization that works to save lives from tobacco-related disease. Legacy was created from the landmark Master Settlement Agreement between the Attorneys General and tobacco companies more than a decade ago to prevent smoking-related disease and death in the United...
WASHINGTON, April 15, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Legacy® today filed an amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief on behalf of itself and 17 leading public health organizations, supporting New York City's appeal of a ruling by a federal judge striking down the city's point-of-sale warnings on tobacco products. Legacy, the national public health foundation devoted to keeping young people from smoking and helping all smokers quit, previously filed a brief in support of the graphic...
Despite Years Attempting to Re-Brand Itself, Big Tobacco Is Up to Their Same Old Tricks as They Sue the FDA Over Its Tobacco Product Safety Advisory Committee WASHINGTON, Feb. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The lawsuit announced late Feb. 25, by two of the major U.S. tobacco manufacturers, Lorillard Tobacco Company and RJ Reynolds, that challenges the legitimacy of the Food and Drug Administration's Tobacco Product Safety Advisory Commission (TPSAC) is nothing but a transparent and...
