"states reached legal settlements with the industry worth $246 billion and aimed at recovering health care costs."
Is that the same money used for everything BUT health cost. And how much does the GOVT make on tobacco with all the taxes put on it.
Well, it goes without saying that these trial lawyers are nothing but whores. Their greed is a bottomless pit, no doubt. The sad thing about this whole cigarette litigation is that it's primarily the poor and work class folks who are bearing it's cost as these are the folks who still smoke. These are the same folks that the trial lawyers and the Democrates state that are advocates of.