Hello, Can you please help me figure out answer to these questions:

1. Vermont invests about $4.5 million/year in anti-smoking efforts.Out of 100,000 VT high school students 17,600 smoke.In New Hampshire no money is spent on anti-smoking campaigns and 20,800 out of 100,000 HS students smoke.Using the Poisson distribution, can Vermont argue that their program has some positive effect?
2. An election poll concluded that two candidates were tied at 50% of polled voters each.The number of people polled was 500.What is the statistical error at a 95% confidence level? Comment on the results. Hint: Use the continuous approximation to the binomial distribution.This type of result will be similar to when polls are reported on the news and the newscaster will say that the error is plus and minus 3%.