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$20,100 grant continues tobacco program  

Jump to full article: Marietta (OH) Times, 2010-03-18
Author: Evan Bevins

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A grant awarded by the Ohio Hospital Association will help support Selby General Hospital's Tobacco Prevention Program.

Funding for the program has been in flux since a 2008 bill abolished the Ohio Tobacco Prevention Foundation as state officials sought to use money from Ohio's settlement with major tobacco companies for other purposes. A legal fight over the money has now reached the Ohio Supreme Court, which agreed last week to hear an appeal of a ruling by the state's 10th District Court of Appeals that said the state could use the money as it wanted.

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