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Funds for Anti-Smoking Campaign Shrink

By AAN Staff

may 7, 2004 11:36 am

Each day tobacco accounts for the deaths of roughly 1,200 Americans, making it a bigger killer than alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, illegal drugs, murders and suicides combined. At the same time, the American Legacy Foundation, the group charged with educating the public about the dangers of smoking, is seeing its annual budget shrink by $20-$25 million each year, Seth McM. Donlin reports in Boston's Weekly Dig. That's because independent cigarette brands are gaining market share, diminishing the total the big four tobacco companies must pay to fund an anti-smoking campaign under the 1998 tobacco settlement with 46 states.

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