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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
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| | Chapter 32 Political issues |
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| | Political issues: California political and economic issues |
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| | Proposition 188 received only 29% of the vote in the November 1994 election; $17 |
| | million divided by 2,284,431 votes equals $7.46 that the tobacco industry invested for |
| | each of their votes. |
| | San Francisco Chronicle, November 10, 1994 |
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| | Philip Morris told stockholders that passage of Prop 188 was "of paramount |
| | importance to our consumers, our employees and you, our stockholders." Such |
| | comments contrasted with the company's public pronouncements, which portrayed the |
| | initiative as an anti-smoking measure to increase protection for children. |
| | American Medical News, November 28, 1994, p. 24 |
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| | After the defeat of Prop 188, Assembly Bill 13 became effective in January 1995. It |
| | bans smoking in most indoor places of employment in California, including |
| | restaurants. |
| | San Francisco Chronicle, July 20, 1994 |
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| | Since the California state tax increased in 1988, there are a million fewer smokers in |
| | the state, and tobacco use has dropped by 27 percent, three times the national |
| | average. |
| | Washington Post National Weekly Edition, July 4-10, 1994, p. 10 |
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| | The 1988 Proposition 99 saved more than $1.5 billion in health care costs in the first |
| | five years since its enactment because of reduced tobacco use. In an ad financed by |
| | the state's tobacco tax, an actor playing a tobacco company executive exhorts his |
| | staff in smoke-filled room to help enlist 3100 new customers a day to replace those |
| | who quit or die from smoking-related disease. "We're not in this business for our |
| | health", he jokes in a smoke-graveled voice. |
| | Washington Post National Weekly Edition, July 4-10, 1994, p. 11 |
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