The tobacco industry has fogged the picture long enough.

Tobacco use causes approximately 900 Vermont deaths each year. It is the single most preventable cause of death and disease in Vermont, killing more people than alcohol, AIDS, car accidents, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined. An estimated 88,000 adult Vermonters (18%) smoke and sixteen percent of youth in grades 8 through 12 identify themselves as current smokers. Eight percent of 12th graders are daily smokers. One-third of all tobacco users will die prematurely because of their addiction to tobacco. Treating smoking-related illness in Vermont costs $233 million every year, $72 million of which are taxpayer funded Medicaid expenditures. Smoking-related illness results in another $197 million in productivity losses each year.

Learn more about tobacco in Vermont! Click on the links below to learn more about tobacco-related issues.

Download "Smoking in Vermont"

The Coalition for a Tobacco Free Vermont works to reduce tobacco use in Vermont through policy change. Find out how you can help us by learning more about our legislative priorities!

Download ''2008 Legislative Agenda''

The Coalition supports the tobacco program budget recommendations submitted by the statutorily mandated Tobacco Evaluation and Review Board (TERB).

Click below to view TERB's recommendations for 2008.

Download "Tobacco Board Recommendations"