tobacco settlement

He could not produce a middle ground on a tobacco settlement.

And he said the President had not been involved enough in the debate over the tobacco settlement.

Money from the large tobacco settlement helps pay the state's share.

How many millions will his firm get from the tobacco settlement?

The state will most likely raid the tobacco settlement money, which was supposed to be used for health care programs.

The organization said that it violated the 1998 tobacco settlement.

Almost everyone involved in the debate sees the tobacco settlement as a partial answer to their problems.

We have $1.8 billion coming in from a tobacco settlement for a 20-year period.

The state is selling bonds against future payments from the tobacco settlement.

Isn't it about time we try to save some of those lives with that tobacco settlement money?

This is the first such notice served under the tobacco settlement, she said, which involves 46 individual states and not the federal government.

Now the President has to accept the tobacco settlement because he is depending on that money to keep his promise.

State law officials have become emboldened in the matter, the Journal says, by the recent 40-state tobacco settlement.

Many state legislatures are expected to put the tobacco settlement issue high on their agendas.

But today, the proposed tobacco settlement is all but dead.

Yesterday's tobacco settlement will not shield the industry from all current and future legal threats.

"We've seen a much more aggressive trial bar since the tobacco settlement.

Use the $1.8 billion - which is the lowest figure, I understand - of the tobacco settlement.

I mean, all they really have seen in the tobacco settlement is a cookie jar for them to get money."

"Part of it is his ability to hand out money from the tobacco settlement and state surpluses.

"The tobacco settlement funds represent an opportunity that we've never had before to save lives, and we're missing it."

When the details of the tobacco settlement become a matter of wide public discussion.

"The tobacco settlement money is of great benefit if it is used properly."

The suits expose one of the many ambiguities in the tobacco settlement itself.

Such state lawsuits can proceed while Congress considers the tobacco settlement proposal.