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On 10th Anniversary of 1998 Tobacco Settlement, Report Finds Most States Fail to Adequately Fund Tobacco Prevention Programs

and $124.3 billion from tobacco taxes. But they have spent only 3.2

percent of their tobacco money - $6.5 billion - on tobacco prevention

and cessation programs. -- This year, no state is funding tobacco prevention programs at the

levels recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention. Only nine states are funding tobacco prevention at even

half the CDC-recommended amount, and 27 states are providing less than

a quarter of the recommended funding. (Beginning in...

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