State of Ct. collects from tobacco for anti smoking cessation help

Of the $509 million the state will collect in 2011-12 in tobacco taxes and from the 1998 national tobacco settlement, the government will allocate $2.7 million for the Department of Social Services' smoking-cessation program and $600,000 for the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services' smoking-prevention efforts. Based on data compiled by a coalition of antismoking groups, those appropriations were understated in Monday's editorial, "Regressing on smoking."