Kentucky and Indiana together received an estimated $990 million this year from tobacco settlement money and tobacco taxes — but little of it is being spent on anti-smoking programs, according to a report by public health groups. According to the…
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Anti-smoking effort
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Even as it charges among the highest cigarette taxes in the U.S. and collects millions from an ongoing tobacco company settlement, New Jersey is stingy when it comes to anti-smoking efforts. A report released Wednesday by the American Cancer Society,…
State fails kids on tobacco
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Though Texas is collecting about $1.9 billion a year from cigarette taxes and its big tobacco settlement, it is using only a tiny portion on programs to prevent youth smoking, a new study found. Texas ranked 39th in the study…