Cessation Programs News Today

Today, the Coalition for a Smoke-Free Tomorrow called on Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear to allocate the $14 million the state is expected to receive through a settlement between e-cigarette maker JUUL and 34 attorneys general, to Kentucky’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Programs under the direction of the Kentucky Department of Health and in partnership with Kentucky’s local health departments.

Use the cessation programs. cigarettes are legal and alcohol is legal and horrible for your buddy. marijuana has medicinal use. >> the trend is going to making them more difficult for kids to get. cigarettes are more difficulty to get your hand on and so is alcohol. so why lean in the direction with the other thing? >> that is why the president is watching what happens in washington and colorado. how do we make the regulations so kids cannot get ahold of it? how much revenue and how we can regul...

increase the price, people smoke less. it would raise an estimated $735 million a year. and most of that money would go to cancer research. >> no on 29. >> according to map lite, a nonpartisan research firm, nearly $47 million is spent to try to stop proposition 29. more than half of that from big tobacco. $27.5 million from philip morris. another $11 million from rj reynolds. it will cost philip morris and reynolds about a billion dollars. and thats why theyre in here spending $40 mil...