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Pa. Gets 2 Fs on Tobacco Report Card
The American Lung Association report gives Pennsylvania two failing grades.
The American Lung Association says Pennsylvania is not adequately funding programs to protect children and cut back on illnesses related to tobacco use. This comes as a result the recent release of the State of Tobacco Control 2013 report. This is the 11th year for the report which looks at how states and the federal government are spending their money on tobacco control programs. Pennsylvania received the following grades for 2012. "Pennsylvania must make it a priority to invest in programs that keep kids off tobacco and to help smokers quit,” says Deb Brown, president and CEO of the American Lung Association of the Mid-Atlantic, in a press release. “That starts with increasing Pennsylvania’s current level of tobacco prevention and …
Helene
1:10 pm on Thursday, January 24, 2013
eventually stop selling cigarettes at least cut back to sell fewer brands until sales cease altogether with programs all along to help adicts kick the habi until the final phasing out. more ›