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Public health group urges Legislature to direct JUUL settlement money to local tobacco-prevention grants
Summary
Chelsea Ridge of the North Dakota Public Health Association told the House Appropriations Human Service Division the state should allocate JUUL settlement funds now held in the Community Health Trust Fund to local public-health grants targeted at youth vaping prevention.
Chelsea Ridge, chairwoman of the North Dakota Public Health Association’s Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs section, urged the House Appropriations Human Service Division to direct funds from the JUUL Labs settlement to local tobacco-prevention programs.
Ridge told the committee that North Dakota was one of 34 states in the JUUL settlement and that “North Dakota will receive about $6,000,000 over the next 6 to 10 years.” She said JUUL Labs was found to have used “deceptive…
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