Interesting. The New York Times documents a big shift in spending from fighting tobacco to fighting obesity. Makes sense. There are more fat people than smokers.

But … I wonder if the shift — along with the diversion of tobacco settlement money by cash-strapped states to general purposes and tobacco companies’ unabated marketing — spell a growth curve for tobacco use in years ahead.

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