U.S. State and Local Issues

Spending on Tobacco Prevention: Wyoming

Last updated November 29, 2011

  FY2012 FY2011
State Rank 5 5
State Spending on Tobacco Prevention $5.4 million $5.4 million
% of CDC Recommended Spending
($9.0 million)		 60.0% 60.0%

Summary: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that Wyoming spend $9.0 million a year to have an effective, comprehensive tobacco prevention program.  Wyoming currently allocates $5.4 million a year for tobacco prevention and cessation.  This is 60.0% of the CDC’s recommendation and ranks Wyoming 5th among the states in the funding of tobacco prevention programs.  Wyoming’s spending on tobacco prevention amounts to 11.7% of the estimated $46 million in tobacco-generated revenue the state collects each year from settlement payments and tobacco taxes.

Recent Developments: The FY2012 budget approved by the legislature and Governor Matt Mead (R) provides $5.4 million for tobacco prevention and cessation programs, level funding with FY2011. Wyoming’s tobacco settlement payments through FY2002 were governed by a 1999 law that placed all of the state’s settlement payments into a Tobacco Settlement Trust Fund. From FY2003 forward, the settlement funds were placed into an income account that funded substance abuse programs and other health care services. The state’s tobacco prevention program is funded through tobacco settlement funds and state general funds.

In addition, Wyoming is receiving $1.1 million in federal funds dedicated to tobacco prevention and control:

  • $1.0 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).

  • $74,800 from the Prevention and Public Health Fund in the new health care reform law.