Connecticut Ranks Poorly in Protecting Kids From Tobacco!

Ranking the forty fifth state and this past year Connecticut has virtually eliminated funding for tobacco prevention from $6.1million to $400,000.

As a direct correlation of this reduction in funding by our state legislators has resulted in 15.3 of the high school students are smokers and 4,700 more kids become smokers each year costing our state $1.6 billion in health care bills.

Tobacco use is leading cause of the annual deaths in the U. S. killing 400,000 people with an approximate annual cost of $96 billion in health care each year.

Will this lack of providing prevention by Connecticut for our youths create future Laryngectomees?