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Health Coalition: Defunding Oklahoma’s Tobacco Control Programs Will Prove Costly
OKLAHOMA CITY – A group of leading health organizations Thursday released the following statement in strong opposition to a resolution that would allow the Legislature to ... and ill-advised resolution to shift focus and funding away from tobacco prevention and cessation – a move that will incur a large human cost. Oklahoma voters wisely established these lifesaving programs in 2000 to help prevent cancer and cardiovascular disease, the state’s leading ... for 60 percent of deaths in Oklahoma. “It’s important to remember that there is only one tobacco settlement agreement. The states can’t sue a second time. Oklahoma needs to get this right and spend tobacco-related settlement revenues on programs that break the cycle of ...