TIME.com: Full Story –When 46 states agreed in 1998 to settle their claims against the nation’s tobacco companies for $206 billion, they promised that a “significant” portion of the money would go toward antismoking efforts. North Carolina, has directed only 1.2% of their tobacco revenues to smoking prevention. 
 The North Carolina General Assembly was to distribute the state’s settlement revenues and they spent $15,000 for a tobacco-history video. Perhaps more egregiously, it granted rural Nash County $400,000 to attract a tobacco-processing plant.