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• Tobacco tax repeal snuffed out 

The resounding defeat of Proposition 28 was a relief to health and child welfare groups, who backed the voter-approved, 50-cent-per-pack tax in 1998 to raise money for early childhood development programs and fought hard to preserve it in this election. . . But Ned Roscoe, president of Cigarettes Cheaper! and author of the repeal measure, vowed to continue fighting a war of attrition against the tax.

``From what we learned this time, we could do something similar again for less money,'' he said.

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