Even the entire extra tax does not cover the $695 million California spends treating tobacco related illness a year, the health services department estimates.

The state is seeking to recover billions of dollars in Medicaid costs spent treating smoking-related illnesses.

That lawsuit, which is seeking to recover billions spent treating tobacco-related diseases, is scheduled to start in September.

Like the Texas action, those lawsuits sought to recover Medicaid money spent treating people believed to have been afflicted with smoking-related diseases.

Missouri is the last state to get money in the settlement, which awarded $206 billion to 46 states for Medicaid money spent treating diseases related to smoking.

The tobacco industry was first struck by state lawsuits seeking to recover Medicaid money spent treating people with smoking-related illnesses in 1994.

Last year, the states won a $206 billion lawsuit settlement from tobacco companies, to be paid over 25 years, to compensate for money spent treating tobacco-related illnesses.

The 20 minutes or so that I daily spent treating my diabetes thus gave me four more hours of productive time each day.

Except for detectives and spies, seldom does fiction spend much time treating people at their work, yet it is a central aspect of life.

There can't be two coins left to rub together for his own clothes, after what he spent treating us to new finery.