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...themselves flush with millions of dollars from the Democratic and Republican parties. It was money well spent, both parties believed. "From a purely financial point of view," continues the GOP memo, "if the GOP loses this war, the money it will have to spend - perhaps vainly - in attempting to recoup its loses is staggering compared with what it needs to invest ... to win the 2000 state legislative races...
...that, 43 cents goes to state excise taxes. Another 34 cents goes to federal excise taxes. Throw in another 58 cents for the cost of the $206 billion settlement with 46 states - a suit, the irony of which should not escape anyone, launched to recoup "lost" healthcare costs due to smoking - and you're down $1.35 and on your eighth coffin nail before you even start paying the boys down in Raleigh-Durham...
...trial lawyers, smokers are coughing up $30 billion a year to The Man. (Keep in mind these numbers are after John McCain?s $400 billion-plus-$1.50-a-pack-tax settlement bill failed in 1998, and pending the settlement of a Clinton-launched $20 billion heath-care-recoup suit that the Bush DOJ is cool on pursuing...
...Then there's that little matter of the 25-year, $206 billion settlement that the four largest tobacco firms reached with 46 states in 1998. The states were suing to recoup the Medicare dollars spent on ailing smokers. But what if smokers had been actually saving them money over the years by dying young...
...what was supposed to be a death blow, the industry seems once again as healthy as a vegan marathoner. And last week it got an unexpected pick-me-up from the Bush Justice Department. The DOJ said it may be willing to settle a Clinton-era suit seeking to recoup more than $20 billion in health-care costs. The feds essentially admitted that their case is weak, a view not shared by outraged antismoking advocates, who see the shift as a gift to the industry, which contributed $7 million to the Republican Party...