No Strings Attached
By way of John Combest, I saw an article in the Southeast Missourian that would tickle Nick Naylor pink. Ten years ago, Big Tobacco settled a lawsuit with the states agreeing to pay $294 billion over 25 years to fund health care and smoking-cessation programs. Unfortunately, there were no strings attached to the way the 46 states spent these settlement funds. According to the article, less than 4 percent of the money was used for the programs they were intended for. This is far from the first time government has misused funds. It’s the same old bologna, just a different flavor.
I always thought cigarette companies should just replace the surgeon general warning with
“NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION”
who knows what ppl do w our boxes of ground-up leaves individually wrapped in small paper cylinders? but they sure buy a lot of them.
Comment by vroman — December 2, 2008 @ 11:44 p.m.
“I don’t know what’s in ‘em. I just know I can’t stop smokin’ em.” -From an early episode of “Itchy & Scratchy”
Comment by Jacob Voss — December 3, 2008 @ 1:43 p.m.