Comments on: Big Tobacco Loses and Nothing Could Be More Richly Deserved http://cyberbrethren.com/2009/05/22/big-tobacco-loses-and-nothing-could-be-more-richly-deserved/ Devoted to authentic Lutheranism Wed, 23 May 2012 21:13:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dan at Necessary Roughness http://cyberbrethren.com/2009/05/22/big-tobacco-loses-and-nothing-could-be-more-richly-deserved/comment-page-1/#comment-5497 Dan at Necessary Roughness Sat, 23 May 2009 03:05:11 +0000 http://cyberbrethren.com/?p=2010#comment-5497 What the tobacco companies did back in the day was a bad deal. What is nearly as scandalous is that much of that tobacco money that the states got in the settlement went towards things that had nothing to do with health care. <blockquote>Washington has received $1.25 billion in settlement payments from tobacco firms, and the money has consistently gone for public health initiatives and to fight smoking. But that's not so in other states. Overall, less than 5 percent of the tobacco money has gone for tobacco prevention.</blockquote> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97081916 What the tobacco companies did back in the day was a bad deal. What is nearly as scandalous is that much of that tobacco money that the states got in the settlement went towards things that had nothing to do with health care.

Washington has received $1.25 billion in settlement payments from tobacco firms, and the money has consistently gone for public health initiatives and to fight smoking. But that’s not so in other states. Overall, less than 5 percent of the tobacco money has gone for tobacco prevention.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97081916

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