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Speaker weighs in on tobacco settlement money, electric deregulation 

Some but not all of the $9.9 billion Ohio is in line to receive over 25 years from a settlement with the tobacco industry should go toward anti-smoking programs, House Speaker Jo Ann Davidson said Monday.

The state should not be ``creating programs because there's money available to spend on them,'' Davidson said. ``I think that's one of the things we have to be real careful of.''

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