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Description: Blog post about how the tobacco companies have battled against the Proposition 56 ballot initiative, pouring more than $71 million to date into a campaign funding radio and TV ads that have been decried as “supremely sleazy” by the editorial board of the Mercury News, and pilloried by health advocates, the Politifact fact-checking organization and other newspapers including the Los Angeles Times. The opposition campaign, titled “No on 56: Stop the Special Interest Tax Grab,” has so far been 100 percent funded by tobacco companies, with just two companies, Philip Morris (via their affiliate, Altria) and RJ Reynolds donating n excess of $50 million. While Prop. 56 had significant support in polls taken in September, proponents worry that support is slipping under the barrage of cigarette company ads.
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Subject: Prop 56, tobacco tax, ballot measure, campaign finance
Collector: UCSF Industry Documents Library
Description: Opponents of Proposition 56, California’s proposed tobacco tax increase, have raised more than $66 million to defeat the November ballot measure. Nearly all of that money has come from the tobacco industry and much of it has been spent on television ads criticizing the initiative.
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Subject: Prop 56, tobacco tax, campaign finance , ballot measure
Creator: Nichols, Chris
Collector: UCSF Industry Documents Library
Description: Proposition 56 Ballot Measure Total Contributions and opposition contributions
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Subject: Prop 56, tobacco tax, ballot measure, contributions, campaign finance
Creator: California Secretary of State
Collector: UCSF Industry Documents Library
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