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

10/15/13

Probably toward perks for politicians like just about every other dollar the government collects...

Fifteen years after tobacco companies agreed to pay billions of dollars in fines in what is still the largest civil litigation settlement in U.S. history, it's unclear how state governments are using much of that money.

So far tobacco companies have paid more than $100 billion to state governments as part of the 25-year, $246 billion settlement.

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