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California Cigarette Tax

Do Cigarette Bans Actually Work?

AP | GARANCE BURKE | Posted 04.16.2013 | San Francisco
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SAN FRANCISCO — California's tobacco prevention program saved $134 billion in health care costs over the last two decades, according to a new st...

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Tobacco Tax Trails By A Razor-Thin Margin

AP | By HANNAH DREIER | Posted 08.19.2012 | San Francisco
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Two weeks after California elections, a closely watched effort to impose a new tax on tobacco in the nation's most populous stat...

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Willie Brown: Controversial Cigarette Tax Will Help Smugglers

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 06.04.2012 | San Francisco
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Willie Brown isn't one to keep his opinions to himself. In his most recent Willie's World column for the San Francisco Chronicle, the former San F...

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Separating Fact From Fiction: Why You Should Vote 'Yes' on Prop 29

Sherry Lansing | Posted 07.30.2012 | Los Angeles
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If you're still skeptical, here's a primer to help you tease out the facts from the propaganda on the issues of this unnecessarily complicated bill proposing a $1 per pack tax on cigarettes in California.

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There's An Election Next Week?

Aaron Sankin | Posted 05.29.2012 | San Francisco
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On June 5, San Francisco voters will head to the polls and weigh in on a whole host of important issues affecting the daily lives of people both in Sa...

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California Ballot Fight Pits Lance Armstrong Against Big Tobacco

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 05.24.2012 | San Francisco
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Cycling icon Lance Armstrong has, at various points in his life, played the parts of both David and Goliath. In his most recent fight...

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Governor Removes Controversial Doctor From Anti-Cigarette Tax Ads

Aaron Sankin | Posted 05.14.2012 | San Francisco
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Bowing to pressure from anti-smoking advocates, California Governor Jerry Brown has removed from a state health board a doctor who appeared in a contr...

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YES on Prop 29: Cut Health Care Costs, Spur the Economy -- and Cure Cancer

Hollye Harrington Jacobs | Posted 06.30.2012 | Politics
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On June 5, Californians will have the opportunity to pass Proposition 29, the California Cancer Research Act. By adding $1 tax per pack of cigarettes and equivalent tax on other tobacco products, Prop 29 will save an estimated 104,500 lives from premature smoking-caused deaths.

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Group Funded By Philip Morris Protests Cigarette Tax Measure

2011-03-16-Screenshot20110316at9.39.25AM.jpeg | Christina Jewett | Posted 07.18.2011 | Los Angeles
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Story comes courtesy of California Watch. By Christina Jewett Supporters of a proposed $1-per-pack tax on cigarettes argue lives and billions of...

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