Where has all the money gone?

Why stop kids from smoking when we can spend the money from the country's tobacco settlement somewhere else? Or save it for a rainy day?

The American Lung Association says that the Idaho legislature has "raided" the Millennium fund by zeroing out the balance in 2003 to take care of a budget deficit. Now, the association reports, the fund is slowly rebuilding.

In fiscal year 2007 the fund allocated $1.275 million from the fund, including $78,000 for the lung association's Teens Against Tobacco Use program.

Here's the report by The American Lung Association.

The reality is that less than 5 percent of the money in Idaho's fund has been used for anything even remotely resembling a tobacco education program.