We encourage your activism!

We've provided background information and a sample letter to help you craft your own messages.

Legislators on state finance/budget/appropriations and health committees are the key decision-makers in allocating settlement dollars over the next 25 years.

Let's flood their offices with letters, emails, and phone calls! Please send a copy of your letter(s) to us at info@lungcanceralliance.org.

Contact your state legislators directly and in particular let your home district representative know your concerns. Tell them if you're a lung cancer survivor, family member, or friend.

Send a copy of your letter to members of your U.S. Congressional delegation, too. They need to know that research dollars must be greatly increased for lung cancer screening and effective treatments.

• Tobacco Control and Smoking Cessation Websites
  A Question of Intent: A Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry, by David Kessler, Public Affairs, New York, 2001.This memoir is by David Kessler, U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner from 1990 to 1997, who formed a tobacco investigation team and took the industry to court.
• Book review of Tobacco: A Question of Intent. Cliff Douglas, who was a member of the legal team that won a settlement from the tobacco industry for the State of Florida (before the later states tobacco settlement), has written this book review.