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Research & Commentary: Randomized Trial Finds E-Cigarettes Are More Effective Smoking Cessation Tool Than Nicotine Replacement Therapy Lindsey Stroud, a State Government Relations Manager at The Heartland Institute examines a study in The New England Journal of Medicine that finds e-cigarettes and vaping devices to be twice as effective as nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) in helping smokers quit cigarettes

Trends in Cigarette Smoking Among Virginia Adults Source: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Cigarette Smoking Prevalence and Policies in the 50 States: An Era of Change, p.198 The General Assembly, following Governor Gilmore's recommendation, allocated 10% of that settlement to the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth to combat underage tobacco use and childhood obesity, 40% to the Virginia Health Care Fund for the State's Medicaid program, and the remaining 50% to tobacco farmers and their region