"The tobacco industry contributed over $ 7m to the Republicans, 83% of their total spending on political parties
Bush out-raised Gore among all 10 business sectors of the US economy
Energy interests gave more than $48.3m to the Republicans in 1999-2000
The finance, insurance and real estate sector gave over $15m to the Bush's election campaign
The oil and gas industry donated $25.4m to the Republican campaign"

OK, silly me. Here I thought there was no connection. Stoopid, stoopid, stoopid.

The above quotation is from here.