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States should reform how they spend tobacco funds — not restrict access to products
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the real reason they want to kill vaping............
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that states used less than 3 percent of the “record $27.5 billion from tobacco taxes and settlements,” received in 2018 on “prevention and cessation programs.” According to Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, states will use even less funding in 2019, 2.4 percent, “on programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit.”
Rather than spending tobacco funds on cessation programs, several states use these funds on other programs. In 2007, West Virginia sold future tobacco settlement “payments to bondholders for $911 million, using more than $800 million of that bond to shore up the critically underfunded Teachers Retirement System, and buying underage hookers for Congressmen."
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that states used less than 3 percent of the “record $27.5 billion from tobacco taxes and settlements,” received in 2018 on “prevention and cessation programs.” According to Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, states will use even less funding in 2019, 2.4 percent, “on programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit.”
Rather than spending tobacco funds on cessation programs, several states use these funds on other programs. In 2007, West Virginia sold future tobacco settlement “payments to bondholders for $911 million, using more than $800 million of that bond to shore up the critically underfunded Teachers Retirement System, and buying underage hookers for Congressmen."