11 US states spending $200 million pushing smoking at kids; 6 spend more than on tobacco control

Last week the Surgeon General released his 2014 report, which reiterated the conclusion that smoking in movies caused youth smoking and that rating movies R for smoking would reduce youth smoking by 18%. 
 
The Surgeon General also concluded that state tobacco control programs were effective in reducing smoking, but that states were not spending anything near what the CDC was recommending on these programs.
 
We are running an ad in State Legislatures next month that brings these two themes together by making the point that seven states are now spending more subsidizing movies that promote smoking to kids than they are spending fighting smoking.
 
Here is the ad, which is also available at http://www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/ourads/ad_sfm96.htm: