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Experts: Spend opioid settlement funds on fighting opioids
BEN FINLEY and GEOFF MULVIHILL, Associated Press
July 21, 2021
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As a $26 billion settlement over the toll of opioids looms, some public health experts are citing the 1998 agreement with tobacco companies as a cautionary tale of runaway government spending and missed opportunities for saving more lives.
Mere fractions of the $200 billion-plus tobacco settlement have gone toward preventing smoking and helping people quit in many states. Instead, much of the money has helped to balance state budgets, lay fiber-optic cable and repair roads.
And while the settlement was a success in many ways smoking rates have dropped significantly cigarettes are still blamed for more than 480,000 American deaths a year.
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Updated Experts: Spend opioid settlement funds on fighting opioids
As a $26 billion settlement over the toll of opioids looms, some public health experts are citing the 1998 agreement with tobacco companies as a cautionary tale of runaway government spending and missed opportunities for saving more lives.
Mere fractions of the $200 billion-plus tobacco settlement have gone toward preventing smoking and helping people quit in many states. Instead, much of the money has helped to balance state budgets, lay fiber-optic cable and repair roads.
And while the settlement was a success in many ways smoking rates have dropped significantly cigarettes are still blamed for more than 480,000 American deaths a year.
July 21, 2021 - 9:04 PM
Biden says getting vaccinated gigantically important
CINCINNATI, Ohio (AP) â President Joe Biden expressed pointed frustration Wednesday over the slowing COVID-19 vaccination rate in the U.S. and pleaded that it s gigantically importantâ for Americans to step up and get inoculated against the virus as it surges once again.
Biden, speaking at a televised town hall in Cincinnati, said the public health crisis has turned largely into a plight of the unvaccinated as the spread of the delta variant has led to a surge in infections around the country.
âWe have a pandemic for those who havenât gotten the vaccination â itâs that basic, that simple,â he said on the CNN town hall.