States settlement with tobacco companies...
is being pissed away -
here
bq. States that cashed in on a landmark $246 billion settlement with tobacco companies five years ago are spending little on programs to curb smoking, an anti-smoking group charged on Wednesday.
bq. With budgets stretched thin, most of the 46 states that joined the 1998 tobacco settlement are using only a fraction of the funding that health officials recommend for anti-tobacco efforts, according to the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.
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bq. Only four states -- Maine, Delaware, Mississippi and Arkansas -- are still funding anti-tobacco campaigns to the level advised by the CDC.
Posted by DaveH at November 13, 2003 11:34 PM