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Californians backing cigarette tax boost, even though Big Tobacco spending millions

  • Written by Stanton Glantz, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
imageTobacco companies are spending millions to stop a cigarette tax increase in California that public health officials say would save thousands of lives a year. California Department of Health Services

Despite Big Tobacco spending US$71 million to snuff out Proposition 56, an initiative to raise cigarette taxes by $2, 56 percent of Californians said...

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