Stock Asthma Rescue Medication in Schools (SB 3015) was passed by the Illinois Legislature this spring and signed into law by Governor Rauner on August 3. Illinois now joins ten other states in adopting similar policies regarding stock asthma medication.

We applaud Governor Pritzker’s decision to sign Tobacco 21 after it passed the Illinois General Assembly. The policy will substantially reduce youth smoking and save the state hundreds of millions of dollars in future health care costs.

Before January 2018, Nestor Rivera had never even run a 5k. Now, less than two years later, he plans to run the Chicago Marathon with Respiratory Health Association’s Lung Power Team. He’ll run in honor of his mother, a lung cancer survivor.