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Florida spending money to fight smoking 

Florida's revamped anti-smoking campaign is starting to move into high-gear. Lawmakers had gutted the program's budget in recent years, but in 2006 voters forced the program back into relevancy. They approved a constitutional amendment to require the Legislature to put 15 percent of the state's tobacco settlement dollars into the program each year. Now the state anti-smoking campaign will start airing student-produced commercials and begin offering free nicotine patches

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