Medicaid Coverage Tobacco Cessation Resources Available

The American Lung Association has new Medicaid coverage tobacco cessation resources on their website that might be helpful in your work.

  • Making the Case to Improve Medicaid Coverage: A Resource Guide (here)
    • This guide is designed to help state and local tobacco control staff who want to work to improve tobacco cessation coverage for their state’s Medicaid population. As you initiate conversations with your state Medicaid office, it is important for you to equip yourself with knowledge to help you make the case to improve coverage.
  • State-specific Tobacco Cessation Medicaid Coverage factsheets
    • These state-specific tobacco cessation Medicaid coverage factsheets show state Medicaid coverage of cessation treatments from 2020 to 2022.

If you have any questions or need any technical assistance on a specific tobacco cessation coverage issue, email: cessationta@lung.org.

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75 Years Later:  The Impact of the 1950 Papers on Smoking and Lung Cancer | This symposium will celebrate the achievements that have occurred over the past 75 years in the fields of tobacco control, lung cancer epidemiology and causal inference.  Two seminal papers on lung cancer and smoking initiated these three areas of scholarship in 1950.  Since then, significant public health, policy, and research contributions have been made by scholars around the world.  In this symposium, speakers will highlight such accomplishments and present their current research in these fields. | DOWNLOAD FLIER | REGISTER HERE

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