FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Kentucky is on track to get $2.5 billion as part of a 20-year-old Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.
According to KNN, since the first payment in 1999, Kentucky has collected more than $2 billion under the agreement reached by the tobacco industry and state attorneys general. According to Kentucky's Attorney General, the Settlement Agreement has helped early childhood education, health programs, cancer research and more. Kentucky received $102 million in April and is on pace to collect another $5 million over the next five years, bringing the total for Kentucky to nearly $2.5 billion.
