The Joint Millennium Fund Committee has voted on where tobacco-settlement funds that go out to health and anti-smoking efforts each year should be directed next year; on an 8-2 vote, it approved $5.7 million in payments, the largest being $2 million to the Department of Health & Welfare for Project Filter, Quitnet and Quitline, and nicotine replacement treatment; followed by $1.6 million to the Department of Correction for substance abuse treatment.

Other items included were $450,000 to the Idaho Supreme Court for youth courts tobacco and substance abuse services; $120,700 for the American Lung Association for youth tobacco prevention and cessation programs; $250,000 to the American Cancer Society and Health & Welfare for Idaho Women's Health Check; $113,000 to Allumbaugh House for detox and crisis mental health services; $177,500 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Idaho's MethSMART program; $100,000 to the Idaho Meth Project; $150,000 to Idaho Drug Free Youth's i2i program; $400,000 to tobacco cessation programs at Idaho's public health districts; and $94,000 to ISP and Health & Welfare for compliance checks. The Idaho Youth Ranch's tobacco and substance abuse services weren't funded.

The two "no" votes came from Reps. John Rusche, D-Lewiston, and Wendy Jaquet, D-Ketchum, who said the plan doesn't provide enough for H&W's tobacco-cessation services; they favored an additional $1 million for that and another $100,000 for public health districts' smoking cessation services. "It's the one program that actually helps people quit smoking, and we have a waiting list," Jaquet said.