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Letter: Smoking ban takes valuable resources  

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Money could help cancer screenings, but at a price to other S.C. health program  

SC bill would use smoking prevention money for cancer screenings 

Simpsonville prepares for new smoking law ($$) 

Cigarette tax bill upsets anti-smoking advocates 

Anti-smoking advocates who fought for years to increase the state cigarette tax are disappointed by proposed legislation that would reduce by half the portion of the tax revenue spent on smoking-cessation efforts.

But they also appreciate the goal of the bill's sponsor, Rep. Brian White, to put more money into screening for cancer. Words are being chosen carefully.

"Prevention (of various diseases) is not something we work against each other on," said June Deen, director of advocacy for the American Lung Association in South Carolina and Georgia. "We try to work together."

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