Smoke and Cigarettes

We hear a lot from Frankfort about soaking Kentucky smokers because of their alleged drain on the Commonwealth's resources. Interestingly enough, a quick perusal of the overdue budget transparency website reveals that an astonishingly small proportion of the money from the tobacco settlement actually goes to smoking prevention.

Surprising amounts of the settlement money go to Spousal Abuse Prevention, Natural Resources Conservation, and Daycare. Daycare? Is that a tobacco-caused illness?

The time has come for Frankfort to stop draining users of a native crop for special projects that have nothing to do with tobacco illness and public health.