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- Cdc Says State Spends Less Than 8% Of What It Should On Preventing Use Of Tobacco; Companies Spend 13 Times As Much
Kentucky spends only 7.6 percent of what it should spend on preventing the use of tobacco, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says in its latest annual report on the subject. The state spent $4.33 million on tobacco-control programs...
- As National Smoking Rate Has Declined, Kentucky's Has Gone Up
Randy Jackson, 50, of Louisville, said he's smoked for 20 years. (Photo by Aaron Borton, special to The Courier-Journal)"Kentucky has failed to keep up with the nation?s gains in limiting tobacco use, outlined in the U.S. Surgeon General?s just-released...
- Kentucky Spends Less Than A Penny Of Its Tobacco-settlement Money On Prevention Programs; Few States Do Very Much
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A new report says that 15 years after the 1998 state tobacco settlement, Kentucky ranks 38th in the nation in funding tobacco prevention and cessation programs, only 3.7 percent of the amount recommended by the federal Centers...
- Lack Of Statewide Smoking Ban Represents One Part Of Kentucky's Struggle To Deal With Tobacco Use And The Health Issues It Creates
By Molly BurchettKentucky Health News As the bill for a statewide smoking ban lies on its deathbed in the General Assembly, new federal data show Kentucky still has the highest percentage of smokers (29 percent) of any state, leads the nation in the share...
- Kentucky Ranks 36th For Tobacco Prevention Spending; Many States Have Made Cuts
Though it received $389 million in tobacco-settlement funds in fiscal year 2012, and ranks first or second in tobacco use, Kentucky spent just $2.2 million of that on prevention of tobacco use. The figures rank Kentucky 36th in the nation for helping...
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CDC: Kentucky grossly underuses tobacco settlement money when it comes to tobacco prevention and cessation programs
Kentucky is not even remotely up to snuff on state tobacco-prevention programming. According to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control, the state spends only $2.2 million on such programs. That amount is only 4.5 percent of what the CDC recommends that state, which has the highest incidence of tobacco use in the nation, spend. If the state spent what the nation's most prestigious health institution recommended, state spending to improve Kentucky's collective lungs should be in the $57 million range.
Kentucky ranks 36th in state tobacco control spending nationwide. According to the RWJ Foundation report, states will collect a record $25.7 billion in revenue from the tobacco settlement and from tobacco taxes this year, but will spend just 1.8 percent of that money on programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit. That's less than two cents of every tobacco dollar sent back to the states. Only Alaska and North Dakota are funding the levels that the CDC has recommended.
Read the report here. To view an interactive national map, with each state's spending outlined at here.
Kentucky ranks 36th in state tobacco control spending nationwide. According to the RWJ Foundation report, states will collect a record $25.7 billion in revenue from the tobacco settlement and from tobacco taxes this year, but will spend just 1.8 percent of that money on programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit. That's less than two cents of every tobacco dollar sent back to the states. Only Alaska and North Dakota are funding the levels that the CDC has recommended.
Read the report here. To view an interactive national map, with each state's spending outlined at here.
- Cdc Says State Spends Less Than 8% Of What It Should On Preventing Use Of Tobacco; Companies Spend 13 Times As Much
Kentucky spends only 7.6 percent of what it should spend on preventing the use of tobacco, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says in its latest annual report on the subject. The state spent $4.33 million on tobacco-control programs...
- As National Smoking Rate Has Declined, Kentucky's Has Gone Up
Randy Jackson, 50, of Louisville, said he's smoked for 20 years. (Photo by Aaron Borton, special to The Courier-Journal)"Kentucky has failed to keep up with the nation?s gains in limiting tobacco use, outlined in the U.S. Surgeon General?s just-released...
- Kentucky Spends Less Than A Penny Of Its Tobacco-settlement Money On Prevention Programs; Few States Do Very Much
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News A new report says that 15 years after the 1998 state tobacco settlement, Kentucky ranks 38th in the nation in funding tobacco prevention and cessation programs, only 3.7 percent of the amount recommended by the federal Centers...
- Lack Of Statewide Smoking Ban Represents One Part Of Kentucky's Struggle To Deal With Tobacco Use And The Health Issues It Creates
By Molly BurchettKentucky Health News As the bill for a statewide smoking ban lies on its deathbed in the General Assembly, new federal data show Kentucky still has the highest percentage of smokers (29 percent) of any state, leads the nation in the share...
- Kentucky Ranks 36th For Tobacco Prevention Spending; Many States Have Made Cuts
Though it received $389 million in tobacco-settlement funds in fiscal year 2012, and ranks first or second in tobacco use, Kentucky spent just $2.2 million of that on prevention of tobacco use. The figures rank Kentucky 36th in the nation for helping...