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National Report Ranks Georgia 50th in Protecting Kids from Tobacco 

Georgia currently spends $3.2 million a year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which is 2.7 percent of the $116.5 million recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Last year, Georgia also ranked 50th, spending $3.2 million on tobacco prevention.

Other key findings for Georgia include:

* Georgia this year will collect $377 million from the 1998 tobacco settlement and tobacco taxes, but will spend just 0.8 percent of it on tobacco prevention programs.

* The tobacco companies spend $426.4 million a year to market their products in Georgia. This is 134 times what the state spends on tobacco prevention.

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