Prop 29

• Willie Brown isnt one to keep his opinions to himself.
(Huffington Post)
• Did you pay any taxes last year?  If so, and even if you don't smoke tobacco, some of your money went to pay for the costs of tobacco-related disease – and helped put money into tobacco industry coffers as well.
(San Francisco Gate)
• WASHINGTON, June 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Lung Cancer Alliance-California endorsed Californias Proposition 29, a ballot initiative to increase the tax tobacco by $1 to fund cancer research and tobacco prevention programs.
(YAHOO!)
• Two new polls find widely divergent sentiment for the tobacco tax initiative on Tuesdays ballot. The Field Poll gives the $1-a-pack tax a narrow lead of 50 percent to 42 percent, suggesting that the race is tightening.
(msnbc.com)
• On June 5, Californians will vote on Proposition 29, which, if passed, will place a $1 per pack tax on cigarettes. If youve turned on the TV lately, youve probably heard of Prop 29, because Big Tobacco has spent $40 million to try to defeat it.
(Huffington Post)
• Heres a primary prediction: Despite being seriously outspent by big tobacco, the Proposition 29 people get a last-minute infusion of campaign cash and squeak out a win for their measure tacking another $1-per-pack tax onto cigarettes.
(San Francisco Gate)
• Never mind the fact big tobacco fronts the opposition to Proposition 29. That is a given.
(Bakersfield Californian)
• You think al-Qaidas a killer? It has nothing on Big Tobacco: More than 1,000 Americans die every single day from tobacco-related illnesses.
(San Jose Mercury News)
• The tax on a pack of cigarettes in California is currently 87 cents. The question before voters in Prop 29 is whether to add a dollar a pack to that tax. Levies on other tobacco products would go up as well.
(KPBS)