https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/01/how-massachusetts-spends-tobacco-money/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:52:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/01/how-massachusetts-spends-tobacco-money/comment-page-1/#comment-199935 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:52:20 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=35781#comment-199935 1%? I would have guessed zero.

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/01/how-massachusetts-spends-tobacco-money/comment-page-1/#comment-199931 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:36:06 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=35781#comment-199931 Who is the most addicted? Politicians to money or smokers to nicotine?

]]> https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/01/how-massachusetts-spends-tobacco-money/comment-page-1/#comment-199874 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:45:11 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=35781#comment-199874 The tobacco settlement was a great scam on the smoking public perpetrated by the state governments and the tobacco companies. According to R.J. Reynolds “The government per-pack profit from cigarettes in 2011 was $3.68 (or 66 percent of the cost of a pack of cigarettes); more than ten times the profit of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company”. It doesn’t take an Einstein to see who has the greatest incentive to see that people still smoke. It is not just that the states need the money for other purposes that they have almost completely stopped funding programs to help people quit smoking. Once the state governments are hooked on the profits from the sale of tobacco there is no way that they would want people to quit smoking. They can’t afford to lose all of those tax revenues.

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