SENSE OF THE CONGRESS CONCERNING RECOVERY FROM TOBACCO COMPANIES OF COSTS OF TREATMENT OF VETERANS FOR TOBACCO-RELATED ILLNESSES.

SEC. 8209. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS CONCERNING RECOVERY FROM TOBACCO COMPANIES OF COSTS OF TREATMENT OF VETERANS FOR TOBACCO-RELATED ILLNESSES. It is the sense of the Congress— (1) that the Attorney General or the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, as appropriate, should take all steps necessary to recover from tobacco companies amounts corresponding to the costs which would be incurred by the Department of Veterans Affairs for treatment of tobacco-related illnesses of veterans, if such treatment were authorized by law; and (2) that the Congress should authorize by law the treatment of tobacco-related illnesses of veterans upon the recovery of such amounts.