Saved by smokers

摘要

At the first Thanksgiving, the Wampa-noag Indians generously shared their tobacco with the settlers. Now the politicians of Tennessee are enjoying a more relaxing holiday because of cigarettes. When a gaping hole opened in the state's budget for the current fiscal year, which started on July 1st, the legislature made up the difference by swiping $560m-the revenue available to Tennessee in the next fiscal year from its share of the $206 billion settlement agreed upon with the tobacco firms in 1998.