Under the 1998 "Master Settlement Agreement" between the states and the tobacco companies, the state receive annual payments based on the sales of cigarettes the previous year...and only spend 2% of the proceeds on antismoking programs.
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corruption; Alan Blum; Marlboro Journal of Medicine; partners; states; tobacco; nicotine; cigarettes