http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/lawsuit/ag:_ca.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://www.hotcoco.com/news/eastbay/central/stories/kbk03694.htm http://tobacco.org/news/13020.html Under the $24 billion California settlement with tobacco companies approved last week, half the money will go directly to the state, 40 percent to the state's 58 counties (based on population size) and 10 percent to the metropolitan cities of San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego and Los Angeles. Annual Contra Costa payments would start at $3.7 million in 2000 and rise sharply to $12 million or so by 2025. Contra Costa Times Sat, 19 Dec 1998 05:00:00 GMT http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/12/10/MN9052.DTL http://tobacco.org/news/12587.html The CALIFORNIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION -- the state's largest organization of doctors -- as well as state branches of the AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY and the AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION yesterday disassociated themselves from the settlement. Also dropping out of the case is the state branch of the AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS. San Francisco Chronicle Fri, 11 Dec 1998 05:00:00 GMT