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 taxes, according to a report released by a coalition of public health organizations. The ...

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 groups is releasing Wednesday. The states will spend $567.5 million of their own ...

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. Denver-based National Jewish Health received triple the usual number of calls Monday for a March day to quit ...

In a Dec. 18 story about tobacco-growing states' proposals to raise cigarette taxes, The Associated Press misstated the name of an anti-smoking advocacy group on second reference. It is the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, not smoke-free kids.