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Decline in smoking means decline in state revenue
Stateline: Americans are smoking less and less. Thats good news for public health, but it creates an ironically nasty side effect for many state budgets. They have grown dependent on an annual stream of money from tobacco companies, and that money is itself dependent on the number of people who consume cigarettes.
The payments to states come each year as dictated by the Master Settlement Agreement, a 1998 settlement between 46 states and most of the big tobacco companies, in exchange for states promises not to sue the cigarette manufacturers over health claims.
