Protect Children, Save Lives, Reduce Healthcare Costs
As of June 30, 2008, funding for tobacco prevention and cessation was devastated: coalitions that are fighting to prevent tobacco use in their communities, in-school prevention programs, cessation programs for smokers who want to quit, free nicotine replacement therapy for those who can’t afford it, youth anti-smoking campaigns like stand, and programs to help minorities and other populations who are targeted by the tobacco industry--their funding is gone.