Progress During 2004 and 2005 ResearchPublished Mar 26, 2007 The Tobacco Settlement Proceeds Act, a referendum passed by Arkansans in the November 2000 election, invests Arkansas share of the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement funds in seven health-related programs
It spent $290,000 on in-house lobbying during the second quarter and another $110,000 on lobbying firms
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This report charts the progress of each program, including assessing progress in achieving long-range goals established by the programs in 2005, tracking the programs process measures, and assessing performance on a set of program management integrity criteria
Still, not only was this a mainstream cultural topic at the time (see also John Grishams The Runaway Jury, which similarly plays as more dated than many of his earlier books), the film is grounded in real world events