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When 46 states agreed in 1998 to settle their claims against the nation's tobacco companies for $206 billion, they promised that a "significant" portion of the money would go toward antismoking efforts. In fact, only 5% of the money has been used for that purpose, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures, with much of it going to such things as education, capital improvements and budget shortfalls. But perhaps no state has been quite so brazen in distorting the purpose of the settlement money as tobacco-producing North Carolina, which has directed only 1.2% of tobacco revenues...
...reports as surgeon general set the nation’s quantitative health goals and have publicized the risks of tobacco...
...against any payout of compensation in sexual-abuse cases.) Church officials claim that even when an archbishop is on record as being the chairman of a diocesan corporation, whether a parish or a school, the diocese is not responsible for the acts of any parish priest. Of course, Big Tobacco once thought--wrongly, it turned out--that it was immune from lawsuits by individual smokers...
...Omen Tobacco giant Philip Morris' "Think. Don't smoke" ad campaign, aimed at youth, actually makes teens want to light up, according to a recent U.S. study...
...home in Pinole, Calif., she continues to be involved in community issues, in particular education and housing for the poor. She recently lobbied for tobacco settlement money to fund a family health program and visits a nearby juvenile detention center monthly to reach out to young people...