Trump budget cuts hobble antismoking programs

The students of the Wyoming East High School in the Kohleland in West Virginia had various reasons for joining Raze, a state program to raise awareness of the health risks of tobacco and e-cigarettes.

The 17 -year -old Cayden Oliver grew up in generations of people who smoked and evaporated, and he wanted to make his own choice. The 18-year-old Nathiah Brown fought to leave e-cigarettes and showed up for moral support. Kimberly Mills, 18, wanted to prove that although she had been a foster child, she would defy the chances.

The high school program cost West Virginia less than 3,000 US dollars a year and was to protect teenagers in the state that has the highest vapor rate in its age group. It fell victim to the US health budget cuts of the US government, which contained hundreds of millions of dollars of tobacco control funds that went far beyond Washington, far beyond Washington

In the high school, the students pack up stalls in the school toilets and sneak puffs between the classes. “It's bad now,” said Logan Stacy, 18, member of the Raze Group. “Imagine how it will be in two years.”

Experts in tobacco control said that the funding cuts of the Trump government would attribute a quarterly century of public health efforts, which led the smoking rate to a record low and the life of health care and billion dollars in health spending. Nevertheless, the centers for the control and prevention of diseases estimate that almost 29 million people in the United States continue to smoke.

The decimation of anti-mocing work follows a year of wasteful campaign donations from tobacco and e-cigarette companies to President Trump and Congress Republican.