Tobacco cash used to balance many state budgets

Tuesday, April 2, 2002

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- Less than four years ago, Washington state's attorney general helped win billions of dollars from the tobacco industry for 46 states -- money she saw as a bonanza for smoking-prevention programs and other health measures.

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