15 Years Later, Where Did All The Cigarette Money Go?

NPR ^ | 10/14/2013

[llevrok]

Gee, who saw this happening ?

[Jonty30]

Which only underscores the point that there is not enough money in the world for spend-thrift politicians.

[tet68]

Makes me wonder where the money went from the Agent
Orange settlement.

[esoxmagnum]

lawyers.

what did John Edwards make? something around 200 million if I recall correctly?

[hawkeye101]

[Drango]

"I feel ashamed," she says. "I feel like I have to hide my hand with the cigarette in it."

The smoking wars are over. Society no longer accepts it as cool. Addiction keeps 'em coming back but most smokers want to quit.

[AZLiberty]

Where did all the cigarette money go?

Up in smoke.

[jamaksin]

And ... to cover-up governmental "operating expenses" - as in handouts.

How successful were those wars on Poverty, Drugs, ... and the money spent over the decades on public education?

[wardaddy]

Into the homes

Eastover.....Seaside......Rosemary Beach...Tuscany

Wives closets ala Neimans

And deer camps etc

Of asshats i went to Jackson Prep and Ole Miss with.....preppie jackasses

I detested them then too...lol

Thats where the money went.....obscene extortion

[bandleader]

Who’d A Thunk It?Huge Amounts Of Money”Earmarked”And Being Spent Elsewhere??When Are People Going To Wake Up And Realize That Money(To Politicians)Is Like HEROIN To A”Needle Freak”??????????????????????????????

[Right Wing Assault]

$100 billion sure can buy a lot of smoking cessation programs. The other $99+ billion was used for “pet projects.”

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

We were promised a tax break, and I guess we got one since our taxes did not go up as much as they would have without the huge tobacco settlement.

[Doogle]

...where the extorted money Odungo got from BP go? (20 billion)

[230FMJ]

It would have been better to have made a bonfire with the cash, at least then politicians couldn’t have used it against us.

[goosie]

I remember when we all had to get new Televisions in order to open up the airwaves for new technology. I thought the federal government was going to auction off the newly opened airwaves for a gazillion dollars. What happened there?

[Balding_Eagle]

Best suggestion so far. Most realistic.

[DH]

Where Did All The Cigarette Money Go?

Answer: To the cigarette money LOCK BOX just like all of our confiscated social security money went to the Social Security LOCK BOX.

Any more questions?

[norwaypinesavage]

Government at all levels has the unique ability to squander all money it ever gets. What is interesting is not that this happened, it’s that NPR is too stupid to see it coming.

[RicocheT]

When the tobacco settlement came, Wisconsin had a Democrat governor, Jim Doyle. The money was to come in stages over a number of years, but he sold the rights to the Wall Street money lenders for a present value lump sum. Then he dumped the sum into his state budget for a couple of years to make sure his voter constituency, teachers unions, minorities and the college administrators/professors got a big taste. When the money was gone and we ran deficits, he retired.

[VRWCarea51]

I don’t think Michigan did that but I do remember that they did toss it out as grant money like it was Pixie Dust.

I said then, so much for the idea that it was for Health Care.