It's funny how She Lion and I came to the same conclusions, only I was blaming Tobacco Free Kids, the ACS and ALA instead of the RWJF and big pharma. They are all begninning to look the same.
When I recently learned this story was on Free Republic, I wanted to make some belated comments. "Where Has All the Tobacco Money Gone?" seems to me to be simply more anti propaganda from ABC, the star promoter for Tobacco Control recently. ABC is also the network running the "Quit to Live" anti-smoking special series all month long, as part of their antismoking campaign.
This so-called "news" story was only written to rehash what everyone already knows....the MSA money has been spent to support states' pet projects and budgets all across the country. The main purpose seems to be to supply another platform for further whining on the part of Anti-tobacco activists, to remind everyone how desperately they still need money and how Antis feel they were robbed of the '98 MSA settlement funds.
ABC, as a mouthpiece for the antis, only issued this story so that the Anti Health Organizations can continue to vocalize their greed for a share of the spoils from the still pending RICO trial and to keep the ball rolling for more tobacco tax hikes.
The series
"Quit to Live" continues on "World News Tonight."
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When the lawmakers spend that money on race tracks, golf courses and town gardens, there is REALLY something wrong!!!
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