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ND tops in nation in funding tobacco programs
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- A coalition of public health organizations says North Dakota is tops in the nation in funding programs to prevent children from smoking and to help smokers quit. South Dakota isn't far from the top.
• The report says North Dakota spends $9.5 million each year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, meeting the funding level recommended by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. North Dakota and Alaska are the only states that fund tobacco programs at CDC-recommended levels.
• The report was released by groups including the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association and the American Cancer Society.
• South Dakota ranked 13th in funding tobacco programs. The report says the state spends $4 million each year, about one-third of what the CDC recommends.
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Bitter cold continues to blanket the Dakotas
• BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) -- Bitterly cold weather continued to blanket the Dakotas as the workweek began, but the weather promised to warm by the weekend.
• The National Weather Service on Monday posted wind chill advisories for both North Dakota and South Dakota, with the combination of cold temperatures and wind making it feel as cold as 40 degrees below zero in some areas.
• The cold snap began late last week as arctic air rushed in behind a storm front that brought several inches of snow to many areas. Wind chills over the weekend plunged to as low as 47 degrees below zero in Aberdeen, S.D., and 51 degrees below zero in Dickinson, N.D.
• "You dress in layers and layers and move faster than you can think, because if you stop, you'll freeze up," Aberdeen taxi driver Janie Winson told the American News.
• The cold weather didn't stop people from flocking to the Terry Peak Ski Area in western South Dakota's Black Hills when it opened for the season Saturday. The parking lot was filled with a couple of hundred cars all day long, President and General Manager Tom Marsing told KNBN-TV.
• "We really wanted to snowboard," Dickinson resident Conner Krushevsky told the Rapid City Journal. "We've been waiting for this day forever."
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