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

NPR ^ | October 13, 2013

[BigBobber]

As I recall, Hillary’s trial lawyer brother got a big chunk of the money.

[Martin Tell]

Wisconsin Democrats blew ours on hookers and booze...

And they wasted the rest, right?

[Lancey Howard]

As I recall, Hillary’s trial lawyer brother got a big chunk of the money.

Oh yeah.. It was only big-time connected rat lawyers who got to launch those lawsuits.

Now that the scumbags got their trillion-dollar tobacco payday, they're looking for the next scam. They once thought they had a slam dunk with “global warming”. The big DC law firms hired scores of “climate litigators” just a few years ago in anticipation of another jackpot, but now that the “global warming” scam has been exposed and left for dead it looks like all they can do is look for some other government-enabled scam.... Maybe a fast-food/obesity scam, something like that. I’m sure they’ll think of something...

[IncPen]

Long-timers here will remember that Hugh Rodham tried to get an enormous chunk of the tobacco money in Florida... and failed.

Wiki

[Mears]

“That will further push smokers to ECig/vaporizer where they get their nicotine juice from on-line chemists who are not paying “cig” taxes. “

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E Cigs are available in convenience stores and Walgreens here in MA.

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL! ‘Zactly! :)

[Talisker]

In sum, the article does not tell us where the “cigarette money” went.

[jeffc]

Every year since 1998, this program has been funded by money from the tobacco settlement. The five-part class is free for anyone living or working in Orange County. When they sign up, participants get a "quit kit" full of things like toothpicks and gum. And, if they come for at least three of the five sessions, they get a free two-week supply of nicotine patches.

Wow! I'll bet that cost a lot to do and really eats into those billions!

Whadda' ya wanna' bet most of those "classes" etc. are run by someone well connected to some politician somehow and gets a whole lotta $$ to "run" their "clinic" (on the cheap, of course), including kickbacks to the pol who got them the gig?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It went into the general fund where it vanished without a trace like the gas tax money does.

If they would use the gas tax money to actually repair the roads we would have the best infrastructure in the world. Instead they dump it into the general fund, dole it out in drips and drabs to half patch roads that are falling apart and then yelp about how they have to raise the gas tax to fix the roads