[Gabz]

what i don't understand is why doesn't the tobacco companies sue the daylights out of the states that are using their tobacco settlement money for their slush fund instead of as it was intended??

That's not the way the MSA works. The companies have absolutely NO say in how the money is spent, and are specifically prohibitted from getting involved how that money is spent. Excise tax revenues are a different story.

Additionally, the MSA was allegedly to repay to the states money they "claim" to have spent on sick smokers, which supposedly caused the states to not have money for other things.

[cajun-jack]

sounds like legalized theft to me