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Former Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery and Ohio and National Public Health Leaders File Friend of the Court Briefs in Support
Jump to full article: PR Newswire, 2010-01-21
Author: SOURCE Legacy
Intro: Today, Legacy(SM) -- a national public health foundation devoted to tobacco cessation and prevention -- asked the Ohio Supreme Court to hear the appeal in its case seeking to preserve tobacco funds and the life-saving tobacco control programs they support in Ohio.
Former Ohio Attorney General Betty Montgomery, former Ohio Senate President Richard H. Finan and former Director of the Ohio Department of Health, J. Nick Baird MD, and a broad array of Ohio and national public health organizations and leaders filed Friend of the Court briefs in support of Legacy's request that the Court hear the case. General Montgomery, Finan and Baird were instrumental in creating the Ohio Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Endowment Fund and, in their brief, explained that the General Assembly specifically intended that the Endowment Fund be permanently dedicated to tobacco use prevention and cessation programs for the benefit of Ohioans.
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