U.S. State and Local Issues

Spending on Tobacco Prevention: Kansas

Last updated November 29, 2011

  FY2012 FY2011
State Rank 37 41
State Spending on Tobacco Prevention $1 million $1 million
% of CDC Recommended Spending
($32.1 million)		 3.1% 3.1%

Summary: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that Kansas spend $32.1 million a year to have an effective, comprehensive tobacco prevention program. Kansas currently allocates $1.0 million a year for tobacco prevention and cessation. This is 3.1% of the CDC’s recommendation and ranks Kansas 37th among the states in the funding of tobacco prevention programs. Kansas’s spending on tobacco prevention amounts to 0.6% of the estimated $160 million in tobacco-generated revenue the state collects each year from settlement payments and tobacco taxes.

Recent Developments: Kansas’ tobacco settlement funds are governed by a law that directs all of the state’s tobacco settlement payments to a trust fund supporting youth programs. The FY2012 budget, approved by the legislature, provides just $1.0 million for tobacco prevention from this fund. Because funding continues to be inadequate for a statewide tobacco prevention program based on CDC recommendations, funding supports countywide prevention programs in selected areas of the state.

In addition, Kansas is receiving $1.8 million in federal funds dedicated to tobacco prevention and control:

  • $1.3 million from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a 12-month grant for the period beginning April 2011 (from annual appropriations).

  • $91,379 from the Prevention and Public Health Fund in the new health care reform law.

  • $445,590 from the Food and Drug Administration for enforcement of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, including the provision regarding tobacco sales to minors.