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Bay Area Voters Are State's Contrarians - Some winning measures lost big here 

Jump to full article: San Francisco Chronicle, 2000-03-10
Author: Carl Nolte, Chronicle Staff Writer

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Proposition 28, which would have repealed the tobacco tax, went down to defeat by a large margin statewide, but in the Bay Area, the results looked like an election in North Korea -- 82 percent in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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