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Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a former tobacco lobbyist,

has successfully withdrawn “all funding for Mississippi’s highly successful anti-smoking program.” Barbour’s lobbying firm, “Barbour, Griffin, & Rogers, was paid a total of $3.8 million by the tobacco companies, according to reports obtained by the United States Senate Office of Public Records.”

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