Tobacco Settlement Seen as No Windfall for CollegesThe Harvest From Tobacco Lawsuits: Payments Due to the States Over 25 Years

Many state legislators want to use the money to promote public health, not higher education

Nevada's higher-education lobbyists thought they had hit a jackpot when Gov. Kenny Guinn, a Republican, revealed in January the way he wanted to spend the small fortune his state had been promised in a legal settlement with the nation's major tobacco companies.

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