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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 32 Political issues |
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| | Political issues: California political and economic issues |
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| | The $16 million yearly California anti-tobacco media campaign mandated by the state |
| | tobacco tax had an unsuccessful attempt at elimination by Governor Pete Wilson. The |
| | tobacco industry spends $433 million yearly in California to promote their products. |
| | JAMA, July 22, 1992, p. 524 |
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| | Governor Pete Wilson received a $25,000 Philip Morris contribution toward his |
| | inaugural reception in 1990, and was the guest of Philip Morris at a $5000-per couple |
| | fundraising dinner to "help elect Republicans in California." |
| | SCARC, June 30, 1992 |
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| | To honor the Great American Smokeout in November 1992, Oakland became the |
| | largest American city to ban smoking in all indoor work sites. A restaurant smoking |
| | ban took effect in August 1994. |
| | San Francisco Chronicle, June 18, 1992 |
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| | The California annual medical cost of treating smoking-related illness is estimated to |
| | be at least $3.6 billion each year, including $632 million for Medi-Cal costs for poor |
| | people. |
| | Contra Costa Times, February 20, 1995, p. 16A |
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| | In February 1993, Governor Pete Wilson signed an executive order that forbids |
| | smoking in all of the 21,600 buildings owned or leased by the state, including prisons. |
| | There are 180,000 California state employees and 109,000 prisoners, who will be |
| | allowed to smoke only in outdoor prison yards. Seven other states also have |
| | smoke-free government buildings. |
| | San Francisco Chronicle, February 24, 1993 |
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