State gets $67.5M in tobacco money

Attorney General Steve Six says Kansas received more than $67.5 million in its annual payment from a 1998 tobacco settlement agreement.

Earlier this year, Six recovered $4.5 million in tobacco settlement funds previously withheld by tobacco companies. With the two payments, the attorney general’s office has received more than $72 million this year from the multistate settlement of lawsuits against major tobacco companies.