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Cigarette Tax Debate  

Jump to full article: 1350 KSRO (Santa Rosa, CA), 2009-11-18

Intro:

A proposed state initiative would increase cigarette taxes by 1 dollar a pack to provide more than 500 million dollars a year to prevent and cure cancer. Cigarette tax proposals in California tried before and failed, but the question, will this proposal help or hurt the bottom line...smokers?

Guests: For the Pro-Tax side, Paul Knepprath, an executive with the American Lung Association of California, which underwrote the survey... AND Grant D. Gillham, a Government Affairs Consultant in California for the nation's oldest tobacco company, Lorillard Tobacco Company.

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