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National Report Ranks Alaska 2nd in Protecting Kids from Tobacco 

Alaska currently spends $8.6 million a year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which is 80 percent of the $10.7 million recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Last year, Alaska ranked No. 1, spending $9.2 million on tobacco prevention.

Other key findings for Alaska include:

* Alaska this year will collect $105 million from the 1998 tobacco settlement and tobacco taxes and will spend just 8.2 percent of it on tobacco prevention programs.

* The tobacco companies spend $24.9 million a year to market their products in Alaska. This is three times what the state spends on tobacco prevention.

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