Prop 29: Good vs. Evil 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. If you don’t like that deal, Proposition 29 won’t fix it, but it will help. June 4, 2012 Advocacy, Public Health CCRA, tobacco tax, California Cancer Research Act, Prop 29 0 0 Comment Read More »
Taxing Tobacco: Clearing the Smoke California now ranks thirty-third among states in taxing tobacco. Clearing the tobacco-funded smoke to get California voters to see the wisdom of Proposition 29 will not be easy. But we agree with the Sacramento Bee, which recently editorialized that, despite some reluctance about the initiative process in general, “the potential benefits of raising the tobacco tax outweigh the uncertainties posed by Prop. 29 governance. May 17, 2012 Advocacy, CMA, SFMS Member California Cancer Research Act, Prop 29, CCRA 0 0 Comment Read More »
Support Prop 29: Cut Health Care Costs, Spur the Economy, and Cure Cancer Prop 29, the California Cancer Research Act, will benefit every Californian by lowering health care costs in the state, by enhancing California's economy, and by funding life-saving research that produces new diagnostics, treatments and cures for patients. May 8, 2012 Advocacy, CMA, News California Cancer Research Act, Prop 29 0 0 Comment Read More »
