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Excerpts from Poll shows support for anti-smoking spending

Associated Press [04/01/99]

More than twice as many voters polled want 25 percent of tobacco settlement money used to fight smoking, as want all the money spent on unrelated public health programs.

Of 401 voters around the state asked early in March, 66 percent supported using one-quarter of that money to control the use of tobacco, and 30 percent agreed with Gov. Paul Cellucci's proposal to spend the tobacco money on children, the elderly and AIDS victims.

The only money from the settlement that Cellucci proposed using for tobacco control was $500,000 to evaluate the state's program.

"Voters have a keen understanding of the fact that one of the state's primary reasons for suing the tobacco industry in the first place was to reduce smoking among kids," said Dr. David Rosenthal, past president of the American Cancer Society.

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