Summary: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that Oregon spend $43.0 million a year to have an effective, comprehensive tobacco prevention program.  Oregon currently receives $9.1 million a year for tobacco prevention and cessation, which includes both state and federal funds.  This is 21.2% of the CDC's recommendation and ranks Oregon 27th among the states in the funding of tobacco prevention programs.  Oregon's spending on tobacco prevention amounts to 2.7% of the estimated $335 million in tobacco-generated revenue the state collects each year from settlement payments and tobacco taxes.

Recent Developments: Oregon's tobacco prevention and education program (TPEP) continues to be funded  with tobacco tax revenues. In 2008, the program experienced its first significant funding increase since a drastic reduction in FY2004. This increase was due, in part, to the restoration of Measure 44, which provides that the program receive the full 10 percent allocation of the state's 1996 30-cent-per-pack tax increase. In the past, Measure 44 funding was diverted to other state programs while funding for TPEP was reduced.

Combined with funds from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, total spending on tobacco prevention and cessation in FY2009 will be $9.1 million, about the same amount that was spent in FY2008.