A MEASURE setting an alternating tax scheme on tobacco products up to 2035 to curb smuggling and illicit tobacco trade has been approved on second reading in the House of Representatives. In a voice ...

Tobacco companies will need to cut nicotine levels to 0.7 milligrams per gram of tobacco, a fraction of the 17.2 milligrams per gram that most cigarette brands have on average. Progress during the ...

South Dakota lawmakers could cut state government funding for tobacco prevention and reduction by $2 million, rather than the ...

PIERRE — A committee of South Dakota lawmakers advanced a bill 5-2 on Wednesday at the Capitol to reduce state funding for tobacco and vaping prevention efforts. But the lawmakers softened the ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Gov. Kristi Noem’s proposed fiscal year 2026 budget cuts $3 million from programs for tobacco prevention in South Dakota. Three million may not seem like much in a $ ...

BLACK HAWK, S.D. (SOUTH DAKOTA NEWS WATCH) - If lawmakers approve Gov. Kristi Noem’s proposal to cut the state tobacco prevention fund, anti-tobacco advocates said more children are likely to use ...

If lawmakers approve Gov. Kristi Noem's proposal to cut the state tobacco prevention fund, anti-tobacco advocates say more children are likely to use tobacco and nicotine products, more adults ...

SD has allocated $5M annually to a fund that pays for programs to help tobacco users stop the habit and to prevent children ...