{"id":1089,"date":"2015-08-11T13:39:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T13:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2015-10-06T15:47:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T15:47:01","slug":"does-city-spending-on-antismoking-efforts-affect-smoking-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibo.nyc.ny.us\/cgi-park2\/2015\/08\/does-city-spending-on-antismoking-efforts-affect-smoking-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Does City Spending on Antismoking Efforts Affect Smoking Rates?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recently released American Cancer Society annual report<\/a> says that based on federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines New York State failed to invest sufficient funds last fiscal year on antismoking efforts. IBO\u2019s review of New York City\u2019s own spending on antismoking programs finds that spending levels have varied widely in recent years\u2014and that after trending downward the local adult smoking rate has been increasing.<\/p>\n

In 2002, the city\u2019s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene launched its tobacco control plan for reducing smoking among city residents. The plan included: hiking taxes on tobacco products; distributing cessation aids for current smokers; advocating for and enforcing antismoking legislation; and running public education campaigns on the consequences of tobacco use. Spending rose steeply in 2007, with the increase driven by advertising, media campaigns, and nicotine replacement therapies, rather than agency staffing. Tobacco control spending jumped again in 2008\u2014reaching more than 10 times the 2001 level\u2014even as spending on agency staff barely grew. A three-year decline in spending followed in 2009 through 2011, with all of the cuts coming from sources other than health department staff.<\/p>\n

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