House budget would eliminate two tobacco settlement funds
Story Date: 5/3/2011

 

Source:  Gary D. Robertson, NEWS & OBSERVER, 5/3/11

House Republicans want to abolish two trust funds that receive half of North Carolina's share of the national tobacco settlement and intercept money from the third - a direction health and economic development advocates contend will raise youth smoking rates and discourage economic recovery.

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