{"id":73175,"date":"2016-02-06T07:31:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T12:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=73175"},"modified":"2016-02-06T07:31:50","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T12:31:50","slug":"ohio-tobacco-control-efforts-earn-an-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/02\/06\/ohio-tobacco-control-efforts-earn-an-f\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio tobacco control efforts earn an F"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS (AP) &#8212; Ohio&#8217;s efforts to prevent and control smoking and other tobacco use got another failing grade in an anti-smoking group&#8217;s latest national review.<\/p>\n<p>The American Lung Association&#8217;s State of Tobacco Control report, out Wednesday, gave Ohio an F for prevention and control program funding and for its tobacco tax structure. But the group said Ohio&#8217;s doing a better job helping people quit.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio&#8217;s smoking rate stands at seventh highest in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The state has increased its cigarette tax by 35 cents a pack, but the association says the tax must go higher to be an effective disincentive.<\/p>\n<p>The group praised state lawmakers for increasing spending for tobacco-related programs by roughly $4.4 million this year. Expanded quit-line services helped take Ohio from an F to a C for cessation efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS (AP) &#8212; Ohio&#8217;s efforts to prevent and control smoking and other tobacco use got another failing grade in an anti-smoking group&#8217;s latest national review. The American Lung Association&#8217;s State of Tobacco Control report, out Wednesday, gave Ohio an F for prevention and control program funding and for its tobacco tax structure. But the group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 11:01:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}