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This Week in Oklahoma Politics discuss the State Senate failing by one vote to override Gov. Kevin Stitt's veto of a tribal tobacco compact, and an audit showing the state misspent millions of dollars on pandemic funds.

High school students in Oklahoma are vaping more than their peers in other states.

Oklahoma lawmakers are considering measures to cut Gov. Kevin Stitt out of negotiations with the state’s Native American tribes on tobacco and fuel compacts.

This Week in Oklahoma Politics we discuss a new report from the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency against the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust's spending on cessation programs, Epic Virtual Charter School's new board giving $2.5M to a company owned by the brother of its former chairman and a study looking at 18 fatalities from police pursuits over a five-year period.

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One of two state questions on the general election ballot, State Question 814 would reroute public health funding to Medicaid expansion. Lenzy…

In two weeks, Oklahoma voters will decide whether they want to take annual payments from a public health program and put them toward Medicaid expansion.…

U-Haul is the latest company to say it won't hire nicotine users, in the 21 states where that's legal. It's one way to avoid the costs of smoking-related illness, but critics call it discrimination.

President Trump has signed off on raising the age of sale from 18 to 21 for cigarettes and e-cigarettes. Health advocates worry it guards the industry from further sweeping regulations.

The bill includes some policy surprises and increases in funding for several key public health priorities. And it cuts the few remaining taxes that were paying for Obamacare.