COLUMBUS - The Ohio Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Foundation has approved nearly $7 million for 28 community-based tobacco cessation and prevention grants, including three in Greater Cincinnati.

        “These grants represent an important milestone toward the foundation's goals to reduce and prevent tobacco use in Ohio,” said Larry McAllister, foundation chairman. “We are fortunate to have been able to tap into an existing infrastructure across Ohio to mobilize experience and expertise toward saving lives.”

        Local organizations receiving grants are:

        Hamilton County Coalition Partnership (Winton Woods Community Coalition), $50,000 to recruit additional coalition members, create a common body of tobacco control knowledge and increase public awareness of youth tobacco use.

        Assessing Smokefree Homes (Every Child Succeeds), $334,197 to implement a tobacco use reduction program among low-income women in Hamilton, Brown, Butler and Clermont counties. .

        Tobacco Free Healthy Communities (Greene County Combined Health District), $170,689 to a coalition of public health agencies, hospitals, behavioral health providers, prenatal clinics, school districts and nonprofit organizations from Clinton, Fayette, Greene and Warren counties. The coalition plans a program to reduce tobacco use among pregnant women, youth and minorities, and to reduce smokeless tobacco use.

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