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Globe Editorial

Progress goes up in smoke

April 20, 2009

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The budget crisis has put pressure on all states to divert some of the billions in tobacco settlement money that comes their way every year since 1998, but Massachusetts is particularly greedy in grabbing for the federal cash. The health of a new generation of potential smokers -- and the attendant medical costs -- is at stake. (Full article: 439 words)

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