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"Senator Scott has demonstrated a long-term commitment to public serviceon health issues," American Legacy Foundation President and CEO CherylHealton, Dr. PH, said. "The American Legacy Foundation is grateful to have hisexperience and insight as a part of our board of directors."
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Senator Scott, like hundreds of thousands of Americans annually, has losta family member to tobacco-related disease. He is one of two members of theNational Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) appointed to the foundation'sboard of directors. He hopes that his work on Legacy's board will help toraise awareness about the organization's mission to build a world where youngpeople reject tobacco and anyone can quit -- leaving legacies of longer,healthier lives.
"During my time in the Wyoming legislature I have worked to make diseaseprevention a top priority. In my new role on Legacy's board, I hope to attackAmerica's number-one cause of preventable death, tobacco usage. I sponsoredthe Wyoming Cancer Control Act, which was signed into law in March 2007. Iwill support the effective Legacy programs that are helping smokers quit andpreventing youth from starting to smoke."
Senator Scott was first motivated to become involved in tobacco controlefforts when his daughter, Abby, was a fourth grader. She brought home aWeekly Reader-style school publication that focused on youth access tocigarette vending machines and challenged him to safeguard kids from the harmsof smoking by saying "Daddy, make a law!" As a result, Scott sponsored a billto prohibit the sale of vending machine cigarettes to minors, which passedinto law a year later. His daughter helped to champion its passage bytestifying before Scott's colleagues in the Wyoming State Legislature.
A cattle rancher in Wyoming, Scott earned his MBA and bachelor's degreesat Harvard University. He also is active in organizations including theWyoming Stockgrowers Association, Audubon Society and The Nature Conservancy.
The American Legacy Foundation(R) is dedicated to building a world whereyoung people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. Located in Washington, D.C.,the foundation develops programs that address the health effects of tobaccouse, especially among vulnerable populations disproportionately affected bythe toll of tobacco, through grants, technical assistance and training,partnerships, youth activism, and counter-marketing and grassroots marketingcampaigns. The foundation's programs include truth(R), a national youthsmoking prevention campaign that has been cited as contributing to significantdeclines in youth smoking; EX(R), an innovative public health program designedto speak to smokers in their own language and change the way they approachquitting; research initiatives exploring the causes, consequences andapproaches to reducing tobacco use; and a nationally-renowned program ofoutreach to priority populations. The American Legacy Foundation was createdas a result of the November 1998 Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) reachedbetween attorneys general from 46 states, five U.S. territories and thetobacco industry. Visit http://www.americanlegacy.org.
SOURCE American Legacy Foundation(R)
