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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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| | In the 1992 elections, tobacco interests gave $741,450 in campaign contributions to |
| | California legislators, including $221,000 to assembly speaker Willie Brown. This is |
| | $6,179 per legislator. The same year, the legislature passed a tobacco industry |
| | sponsored "smoker's rights" bill which would make smoking a civil right, but it was |
| | vetoed by Governor Pete Wilson. |
| | American Journal of Public Health, September 1993 |
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| | 2.2 million California nonsmokers were exposed to tobacco smoke at indoor |
| | worksites in 1990. |
| | JAMA, August 12, 1992, p. 749 |
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| | The June 1992 Supreme Court ruling that smokers have a right to sue tobacco |
| | companies does not apply in the state of California. The "Willie Brown Civil Liability |
| | Reform Act" of 1987 in California prohibits people from suing the manufacturers of |
| | "inherently unsafe" products such as cigarettes, and a state Court of Appeal in 1989 |
| | ruled that the law provides nearly complete immunity for manufacturers of tobacco. |
| | San Francisco Chronicle, June 24, 1992 |
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| | California Assembly Speaker Willie Brown (a nonsmoker) received $410,517 in |
| | campaign contributions from tobacco companies from 1980 until 1993, with $221,367 |
| | in the 1991-92 election cycle alone. This made him the largest single legislative |
| | recipient of tobacco industry contributions in the United States. |
| | American Journal of Public Health, September 1993 |
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| | Willie Brown's campaign contributions, gifts and legal fees from tobacco interests now |
| | total $750,000. |
| | San Francisco Examiner, September 17, 1995, p. B1 |
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