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Contact your Legislator and tell them
to continue tobacco use prevention
and cessation funding in 2012

The 2011 State Budget abolished the NC Health and Wellness Trust Fund (HWTF) and diverted its funding to the General Fund, including up to $22 million to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) for one year only to administer grants associated with teen tobacco prevention and other health topics. But funding will end on June 30, 2012.

Since 2003, when the HWTF began funding youth tobacco use prevention and cessation efforts, the middle school smoking rate in North Carolina has been cut by more than half (from 9.3% to 4.3%), and the high school smoking rate has dropped by a third (from 27.3% to 16.7%). Additionally, the HWTF had provided a substantial portion of the funding for Quitline NC, which has helped over 5,000 North Carolinians end their addiction to tobacco.

Research shows that eliminating tobacco prevention programs can stall or even reverse this progress very quickly. Unless recurring funds are secured for tobacco cessation and prevention programs, more NC teens will become addicted to tobacco, and preventable health care costs will rise.

North Carolina can save more lives and continue to improve health, but to do so we must continue to invest in these effective programs. Tell your lawmakers to support tobacco prevention funding!

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Continue tobacco use prevention and
cessation funding in North Carolina

The letters below will be sent on your behalf to targeted legislators when you complete the registration form and click "Take Action":

Please continue tobacco use prevention and cessation program funding. Tobacco prevention works to save lives and our state money.

Tobacco use prevention and cessation works! Since 2003, when North Carolina began funding youth tobacco use prevention and cessation efforts, the middle school smoking rate in North Carolina has been cut by more than half (from 9.3% to 4.3%), and the high school smoking rate has dropped by a third (from 27.3% to 16.7%).

Additionally, previous tobacco prevention efforts have provided a substantial portion of the funding for the Quitline NC, which has helped over 5,000 North Carolinians end their addiction to tobacco.

Research shows that eliminating tobacco prevention programs can stall or even reverse this progress very quickly. Unless recurring funds are secured for tobacco cessation and prevention programs, more NC teens will become addicted to tobacco, and preventable healthcare costs will rise.

Please continue tobacco use prevention and cessation funding! The funding is well worth it to help stop tobacco deaths. Our youth are depending on it.

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