U.S. State and Local Issues

Spending on Tobacco Prevention: Oregon

Last updated November 29, 2011

  FY2012 FY2011
State Rank 19 25
State Spending on Tobacco Prevention $8.3 million $7.1 million
% of CDC Recommended Spending
($43.0 million)		 19.3% 16.6%

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 allocates $8.3 million a year for tobacco prevention and cessation.  This is 19.3% of the CDC’s recommendation and ranks Oregon 19th among the states in the funding of tobacco prevention programs.  Oregon’s spending on tobacco prevention amounts to 2.5% of the estimated $326 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. Allocations that had been outlined in Measure 44, which provides that the program receive 10 percent of the state’s 1996 30-cent per pack tax increase, were restored after years in which these funds were diverted to other programs.

In FY2012, state funding for TPEP is $8.3 million, slightly more than the $7.1 million spent in FY2011.
In addition, Oregon is receiving $1.2 million in federal funds dedicated to tobacco prevention and control:

  • $1.1 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).

  • $98,711 from the Prevention and Public Health Fund in the new health care reform law.