What does ALF stand for?

Stating that more than 400,000 Americans lose their lives to tobacco-related diseases every year, the American Legacy Foundation (R) commented: "With this decision, decades of deceptive marketing practices leading to massive disease and death have finally come home to roost for the tobacco industry.

One in four smokers said that financial stress is pushing them to smoke more cigarettes per day, according to a study by the American Legacy Foundation of more than 2,375 U.

PH, president and CEO of the American Legacy Foundation.

5 Kyodo The American Legacy Foundation (Legacy) is attempting to educate Asian teens about the dangers of smoking through a series of ''manga'' comic books based on recent statistics showing a disturbing growth in smoking addiction among them.

In 1999, the American Legacy Foundation, a public interest organization dedicated to reducing youth tobacco product use and substance abuse, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, measured the prevalence of tobacco use among middle school and high school students.

A similar study by the American Legacy Foundation found more than 70 percent of teenagers in 1999 had seen cigarette advertisements often enough to notice them and understand their content.

The latest National Youth Tobacco Survey, conducted by the American Legacy Foundation with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), finds that about one in eight (12.

Other organizations championing this workplace-based effort to eliminate cancer as a public health threat include: American Cancer Society, American Legacy Foundation, AstraZeneca, C-Change, CIGNA, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Duke Medicine, Edelman, Enzon Pharmaceuticals, GHI, an EmblemHealth company, GlaxoSmithKline, Jenner & Block, Johnson & Johnson, The Lance Armstrong Foundation, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company, Minot State University, H.