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National Report Ranks Delaware 3rd in Protecting Kids from Tobacco 

Delaware currently spends $10.8 million a year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which is 77.5 percent of the $13.9 million recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Last year, Delaware ranked 2nd, spending $11.3 million on tobacco prevention.

Other key findings for Delaware include:

* Delaware this year will collect $169 million from the 1998 tobacco settlement and tobacco taxes, but will spend just 6.4 percent of it on tobacco prevention programs.

* The tobacco companies spend $106.7 million a year to market their products in Delaware. This is 10 times what the state spends on tobacco prevention.

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