What burns me is: the Tobacco Company's fell to their knees in front of the Attorney General's, and once that money started pouring into the states, the lawmakers were overwhelmed over all that big money!
They gave some to the Boards of Health and then used most of it, as we all know, to balance their budgets, build big expensive golf courses, plant fancy gardens (yes, in southern Maine, a woman heads up the planting of gardens around town from the Tobacco Settlement Money!
And they were supposed to use the money for education and to pay for any sick smokers should there BE any! But the money in the hands of the Boards of Health is just putting more control, restrictions and higher taxes on adults who choose to smoke a legal product.
See why the lawmakers in the state won't BAN TOBACCO? heh! We all know why not and we all know what is going on with this money.