USA: Up in Smoke (tobacco companies pay up)
6 minutes, 2003
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Anti-smoking campaigners in the United States thought they had won a landmark victory when American cigarette companies agreed to pay billions of dollars to compensate for the cost of tobacco-related illness. But now it seems that many states are returning millions of the hard-won dollars to the very business they sued in the first place. We investigated the controversial use of this money by state governments in America and spoke with various state leaders