Less than four years ago, Washington state's attorney general helped win billions of dollars from the tobacco industry for 46 states — money she saw as a bonanza for smoking-prevention programs and other health measures. Now she is watching in dismay as states around the country — including her own — borrow heavily against their shares of the settlement to plug holes in their budgets. States are not just spending the yearly checks on something else; they are spending decades of settlement payments all at once. "This was the single biggest opportunity in the history of public health to address...