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Big Tobacco aims its guns to kill California tobacco tax

  • Written by Stanton Glantz, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
imageCalifornia aggressively fights Big Tobacco usage in ads such as this, with funds voters allocated when they increased the tobacco tax by passing Proposition 99 in 1988. California Department of Public Health.California Department of Public Health

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