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[California] LETTER: Sleeping with Big Tobacco

Modesto (CA) Bee
added May 13, 2012 23:51
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[California] SKELTON: Think of the tobacco tax as user fee

Prop. 29 on the June ballot would raise cigarette taxes and generate money for research on cancer and related illnesses.
Los Angeles Times
added May 7, 2012 07:10
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[California] $2-Per-Pack Tobacco Tax Clears First of Legislative Hurdles

The Senate Governance and Finance Committee approved the bill in a 5-2 vote and the Senate Committee on Health approved it 6-2. All "yes" votes were Democrats. All "no" votes were Republican.
California Healthline
added May 13, 2013 14:06
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[California] Study: Hookah no safer than cigarettes, just differently dangerous

more than 40% of college students had used a hookah, and many of them appeared to believe it was safer than cigarette smoking. Doctors are trying to dissuade folks of that notion. "The tobacco is no less toxic in a hookah pipe," according to the Mayo Cli
Los Angeles Times
added Apr 20, 2013 17:04
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[California] LETTER: GALLEGOS: Secondhand smoke drifts regardless of scale

The health of the citizens of Glendale has been sold out to private retail tobacco interests ... I hope voters will remember this action next spring when Friedman and Najarian are both up for reelection to the City Council.
Glendale (CA) News-Press
added Jan 4, 2013 14:56
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[California] Federal highway bill forces Fremont 'roll-your-own' cigarette store to close

Customers from as far as San Francisco flocked to the tiny roll-your-own store he opened in Fremont's Niles district last year.
Contra Costa (CA) Times
added Jul 19, 2012 07:09
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[California] Gap in Prop 29 Results Narrows, Ballots Still Being Counted

292,124 votes still needed to be counted and tallied across California. Currently, the results are 50.1% against Proposition 29 and 49.9% for. The two sides are divided by just 12,419 votes.
KTXL-TV FOX40 (Sacramento, CA)
added Jun 20, 2012 16:33
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[Illinois] Dimitrios Kalantzis: California cigarette tax up in smoke

But beware any tax, fellow Illinoisans. Because the next one can affect you directly.
Kankakee (IL) Journal
added Jun 6, 2012 13:49
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[California] Votes still uncounted, Prop 29 losing by razor-thin margin

the proposed $1 per pack tobacco tax, Proposition 29, is now losing by slightly more than 17,000 votes out of almost 5 million
KXTV News10.net ABC (Sacramento, CA)
added Jun 19, 2012 05:17
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Supporters Of California Cigarette Tax Measure Lash Out At Big Tobacco

Channel 2000 (KCBS) (Los Angeles, CA)
added May 9, 2012 18:11
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