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PUBLIC ACT 23-92 - AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF FUNDS IN THE OPIOID AND TOBACCO SETTLEMENT FUNDS AND FUNDS RECEIVED BY THE STATE AS PART OF ANY SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT WITH A MANUFACTURER OF ELECTRONIC NICOTINE DELIVERY SYSTEM AND VAPOR PRODUCTS. Section 4(a) There is created a Tobacco and Health Trust Fund which shall be a separate nonlapsing fund. The purpose of the trust fund shall be to create a continuing significant source of funds to support and encourage development of programs to reduce tobacco and nicotine use through prevention, education and cessation that use evidence-based best practices regarding (1) state and community interventions, (2) communication methods to disseminate health information to a wide audience, (3) cessation interventions, (4) surveillance and evaluation, and (5) infrastructure, administration and management. The trust fund shall be used to support the reduction in use of all tobacco and nicotine products, including, but not limited to, combustible, noncombustible, electronic and synthetic tobacco and nicotine products.



Council Members - as of April 2023 

Appointing Entity

 

 

 

Appointee
OPM Secretary

Claudio Gualtieri - CHAIR 

Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary

Office of Policy & Management

Governor

 

Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin

Professor of Psychiatry

Yale University

Governor

 

Manisha Juthani

Commissioner

Department of Public Health

Governor

 

Ayesha Clarke

Interim Executive Director

Health Equity Solutions

Governor

 

Anne Foley

Former HHS Undersecretary Office of Policy and Management

 

Senate Pres. Pro Tempore

 

 Toni Harp 

Former state Senator and Mayor of New Haven 

Senate Pres. Pro Tempore

 

Vacant

Speaker of the House

 

Pareesa Charmchi Goodwin 

Executive Director, Commission on Racial Equity in Public Health

Speaker of the House

 

Mathew Jasinski

Attorney at MotleyRice

Senate Majority Leader

 

Andrew Salner 

Director, Cancer Program, Helen & Harry Gray Center - Medical Director of Radiation Oncology, Hartford Hospital

Senate Majority Leader

 

Christopher Moran 

Attorney 

State of Connecticut

Senate Minority Leader

 

Robert Boris 

President 

Command Tech 

Senate Minority Leader

 

Dr. Samuel Hahn 

Cardiologist & Associate Director of Cardiac Catheterization

Yale New Haven Hospital 

House Majority Leader

 

Tricia Orozco

Intercommunity CT 

House Majority Leader

 

Steven Hernandez

Executive Director 

ConnCAN

House Minority Leader

 

Michael Rell 

International Governmental Strategies, LLC

House Minority Leader

 

 

Representative Cindy Harrison

State Representative, District 69

Tobacco and Health Trust Fund Board Staff:
Melissa Morton, Planning Specialist, Office of Policy and Management

The next meeting of the Tobacco and Health Trust Fund Board will be announced. 
Meeting Materials for Previous Meetings

Archive - Click to view archive of past meeting materials.

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Reports of the Tobacco and Health Trust Fund Board

Other Related Reports

Connecticut Tobacco and Prevention Control Plan 2002

Other Related Links

Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/tobacco_control_programs/stateandcommunity/best_practices/