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• Position: Stateline - State funding of tobacco prevention and cessation programs - Brief Article

A new report by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids assesses whether states are using proceeds from the 1998 state tobacco settlement to fund tobacco prevention and cessation programs. It found that only Maine, Delaware and Mississippi currently fund prevention programs at minimum levels recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia fund such programs at less than half the CDC's minimum level or provide no state funding at...