§ 9503 - Vermont tobacco prevention and treatment - Vermont Statutes

§ 9503. Vermont tobacco prevention and treatment

(a) Except as otherwise specifically provided, the tobacco prevention and treatment program shall be administered and coordinated statewide by the department of health and the Vermont tobacco evaluation and review board, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. The program shall be comprehensive and research-based, and shall include the following components:

(1) community-based programs;

(2) school-based programs;

(3) tobacco cessation programs;

(4) countermarketing activities;

(5) enforcement activities;

(6) surveillance and evaluation activities;

(7) policy initiatives; and

(8) any other activities determined by the commissioner or the board to be necessary to implement the provisions of this section.

(b) By June 1, 2001, the department and the board shall jointly establish a plan that includes goals for each program component listed in subsection (a) of this section, for reducing adult and youth smoking rates by 50 percent in the following 10 years. By June 1 of each year, the department and the board shall jointly establish goals for reducing adult and youth smoking rates in the following two years, including goals for each program component listed in subsection (a) of this section. The services provided by a quitline approved by the department of health shall be offered and made available to any minor, upon his or her consent, who is a smoker or user of tobacco products as defined in section 1001 of Title 7.

(c) The department of liquor control shall administer the component of the program that relates to enforcement activities.

(d) The department of education shall administer school-based programs.

(e) The department shall pay all fees and costs of the surveillance and evaluation activities, including the costs associated with hiring a contractor to conduct an independent evaluation of the program.

(f) The board shall be represented on all tobacco program advisory committees, including, but not limited to, the youth working group, community grants advisory board and the scientific advisory board. The board's representative on any such advisory committee shall include at least one member other than the commissioner of health. (Added 1999, No. 152 (Adj. Sess.), § 271, eff. May 29, 2000; 2007, No. 26, § 1.)