Doctors Want Virginia's Settlement For Sick Smokers, Not Transportation
The Medical Association of Virginia is urging Virginia Governor
James S. Gilmore III (R) and state legislators to use the
state's $4 billion share of the tobacco settlement to pay for
treating sick smokers, not transportation projects.
Gilmore
hinted earlier this week that the settlement money could be used
to help the state's transportation problems, but the 7,000
member society representing Virginia doctors says the settlement
was intended to pay for future health care needs caused by
smoking.
Source(s):
USA TODAY, (8/18/99) "Virginia", p. A8
[Full Text: http://www.usatoday.com/news/states/vamain.htm]
The Washington Post, (8/26/99) "METRO IN BRIEF: Diversion of Tobacco
Money Opposed", Compiled from reports by staff writers D'Vera Cohn and Christina A. Samuels and the
Associated Press.
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