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Calif. OKs Billions in Bond Debt 

Voters on Tuesday also defeated a measure that would have repealed the state's 50-cent cigarette tax. But experts said that speaks to a different sentiment than voters' generosity. ] "I don't think it's even viewed by most voters as a taxing measure," Kelso said. "It's tobacco – that puts it in a category all its own." [This graph only

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I don't think it's [California's Prop. 10] even viewed by most voters as a taxing measure. . . It's tobacco – that puts it in a category all its own.
Clark Kelso, professor of law at the University of the Pacific, on the defeat of Prop. 28. Quoted in Werner, E. <i>Calif. OKs Billions in Bond Debt</i>