> -----Original Message----- > From: C. Hatton Humphrey [mailto:[email protected]] > We fund anti-smoking campaigns with tax dollars from the > general fund and yet we fund cancer research with cigarette sales tax > money. States have sued tobacco companies and won or settled based on > medical issues that arise from smoking. >
Is it true anti-smoking campaigns are taxed from general fund? Meaning can money collected via income tax be used for this? Or is that taxes from cigarette sales or the money tobacco companies give the states, which are supposed to be earmarked for this purpose, being put into the general fund and then pushed into such anti-smoking campaigns? I don't have any info on this topic but would like to know. Where is that money originally coming from? And if they are using something like property taxes to pay for such campaigns is it because they used the tobacco money to repair a street last quarter and are forced to 'repay' that money now? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287240 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
