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Jump to full article: San Francisco Chronicle, 2000-03-10 Author: Carl Nolte, Chronicle Staff Writer
Intro: Proposition 28, which would have repealed the tobacco tax, went
down to defeat by a large margin statewide, but in the Bay Area,
the results looked like an election in North Korea -- 82 percent in
Marin voted no, 81 percent in San Francisco, 79 percent in
Alameda and Santa Cruz counties, 78 percent in San Mateo and
Santa Clara counties and 76 percent in Contra Costa.
No other urban area in California had such large anti-smoking
margins.
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