{"id":758,"date":"2016-05-09T00:23:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T21:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/?p=758"},"modified":"2017-11-14T21:49:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T18:49:12","slug":"state-should-prioritize-funding-of-tobacco-prevention-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/state-should-prioritize-funding-of-tobacco-prevention-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"State should prioritize funding of tobacco prevention efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_759\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-759\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-759\" src=\"http:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/\u0648\u0627\u0644\u064a-\u0627\u0644\u0637\u0647\u064a\u0641-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/\u0648\u0627\u0644\u064a-\u0627\u0644\u0637\u0647\u064a\u0641-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/10\/\u0648\u0627\u0644\u064a-\u0627\u0644\u0637\u0647\u064a\u0641.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Wali Altahif*<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>State leaders should make funding for tobacco prevention and control a focus in Michigan. Studies show states that make adequate, sustained investments in their tobacco- control programs experience up to a 50-to-1 return on investment by reducing smoking rates resulting in reduced health care expenditures. This can be especially impactful to Michigan\u2019s racial, ethnic and LGBT residents who are the most impacted by high tobacco use rates.<br \/>\nTobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure kill more than 16,200 Michigan residents each year, and cost the state over $4.5 billion annually in smoking caused health costs. The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends Michigan spend $110 million on tobacco-control programming annually, yet the state spends only $1.6 million.<br \/>\nThe Master Settlement Agreement, which settled the states\u2019 lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, includes language that shows the MSA funds were intended to be used to prevent and reduce tobacco use, especially among youth. Michigan spends none of its MSA revenue on tobacco-control programming. In 2015, Michigan received $261.3 million in MSA dollars. If just a fraction of this &#8211; $3 million &#8211; was used to help provide culturally appropriate quit services, we could drive down smoking rates and keep our young people from becoming addicted.<br \/>\nThe time has come for our elected leaders to take action and ensure that a portion of the MSA funds are spent on tobacco-control programming.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>*Chair, the Michigan Multicultural Network<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class='clear '><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&nbsp; State leaders should make funding for tobacco prevention and control a focus in Michigan. Studies show states that make adequate, sustained investments in their tobacco- control programs experience up to a 50-to-1 return on investment by reducing smoking rates resulting in reduced health care expenditures. This can be especially impactful to Michigan\u2019s racial, ethnic [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yemeniamerican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}