Ahead of World No Tobacco Day on May 31, the American Lung Association released a new report that examines the immediate impacts of the dramatic cuts to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and most notably the elimination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office of Smoking and Health (OSH).
Specifically, the report looks at the impact of these cuts on state programs, which receive federal funding from OSH, to prevent tobacco use among youth and help people quit tobacco for good.
The report details specific impacts from federal funding cuts, including:
- The 2025 National Youth Tobacco Survey that measures youth use of tobacco products was pulled from the field early; in general, the continued existence of the survey, which helped us track the youth vaping epidemic, is up in the air.
- The Virginia state tobacco quitline will be shut down and all other efforts to help tobacco users quit will stop unless the state legislature is able to act.
- The Raze program in West Virginia and The Tobacco Free Rhode Island Network in Rhode Island that worked with youth in schools to help prevent their peers from starting to use tobacco products will end.
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Read the full announcement and get the new report: https://www.lung.org/media/press-releases/new-report-details-devastating-impact-of-federal-c