States Use Only Fraction of Tobacco Revenues to Fight Smoking
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Just $8 billion was spent on prevention out of almost $244 billion received, CDC says.
Only a small percentage of the billions of dollars states take in from tobacco revenues goes to anti-smoking efforts, a new federal report finds. Under the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, tobacco companies agreed to reimburse states for Medicaid costs related to tobacco use. According to background information in the new study, the intent of the agreement was to use the money to also help prevent youth smoking, although there was no stipulation that this must happen. Read more...
