U.S. State and Local Issues

Spending on Tobacco Prevention: Kansas

Last updated December 04, 2012

  FY2013 FY2012
State Rank 39 37
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 39th among the states in the funding of tobacco prevention programs.  Kansas’s spending on tobacco prevention amounts to 0.6% of the estimated $161 million in tobacco-generated revenue the state collects each year from settlement payments and tobacco taxes.

Background and 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 FY2013 budget, approved by the legislature, appropriates a mere $1.0 million from this fund to pay for tobacco prevention and cessation programs. This level of funding has been steady in recent years, though grossly insufficient to fund a statewide tobacco prevention program based on CDC recommendations.As a result, funding supports prevention programs in only select areas of the state.

In addition, Kansas is receiving $1.9 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 2012 (from annual appropriations).

  • $189,404 from the Prevention and Public Health Fund in the new health care reform law for the period beginning August 1, 2012. 

  • $458,958 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.