DOJ decision in tobacco case prompts anger

Critics assailed the Justice Department's decision to sharply reduce the settlement the government is asking for in the racketeering case against Big Tobacco. Yesterday, government lawyers dropped a bombshell when they announced that they will ask the tobacco industry to pay $10 billion for smoking cessation programs over the next five years, a figure substantially lower than the $130 billion estimate over 25 years many experts had expected. The news has provoked anger in health policy circles and calls for an investigation in Washington.

- see this story from the Los Angeles Times

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