<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Adding a $1 per pack tax to cigarettes could raise more than $9 billion a year for states, health advocates said on Wednesday, and a poll released with the study shows Americans would support such a tax.</p><p>The poll, conducted by International Communications Research, found 60 ...

<div id="subtitle">Cuts come even as record amounts of tobacco revenue roll in</div><div><p>States have cut funding for programs to reduce tobacco use by more than 15 percent in the past year, even as they are collecting record amounts of money from the 1998 tobacco settlement and tobacco ...

<div id="subtitle">Report: States cut tobacco prevention funds, now less than one-fifth of federal recommendation</div><div><p>States cut funding for state tobacco prevention programs more than 15 percent this year, pushing it further than ever below federally recommended levels, according to a report that a coalition of public health ...

<div id="subtitle">Smokers flood stop-smoking hot lines with pleas for help as cigarette tax rises</div><div><p>Calling your state stop-smoking hot line for help kicking the habit? Expect a wait: Smokers are flooding the lines in a panic over an increase in the tobacco tax.</p>&lt ...