New STAT Piece on CDC Tobacco Funding Cuts Features Youth & Many of Our Colleagues
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
A new STAT article, “What West Virginia teens lost when CDC cuts ended their fight against Big Tobacco,” (Teenaged anti-smoking activist laments impact of CDC cuts | STAT) part of the American Science, Shattered series, follows Breanna Cutright, an 18-year-old Raze youth leader in West Virginia, whose program shut down after the elimination of CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health (OSH), despite the state having the highest youth and adult tobacco use rates in the nation. The piece highlights how the OSH cuts have rippled through state prevention and cessation efforts, including youth-led programs like Raze and state quitlines, and notes that many tobacco control advocates and staff from our community were interviewed to explain what has been lost for youth, families, and public health infrastructure. It is a compelling resource to share with partners, policymakers, and the media to underscore the stakes of restoring federal tobacco control funding.
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