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STEPHANY: My Turn: Reducing tobacco use health care investment 

Research, including that of the surgeon general of the United States, the President's Cancer Panel, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Cancer Institute, has demonstrated that comprehensive state tobacco use prevention and treatment programs, sustained over time, can achieve substantial reductions in tobacco use.

We know what works. Now is not the time to reduce funding for Vermont's tobacco use prevention and treatment program. Now is the time to appropriate an additional $5.2 million, for a total of $10.4 million (just 25 percent of our payments from the tobacco companies) to fight the leading killer and disease agent in Vermont. Vermonters deserve nothing less.

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