Herb Wesson is an idiot. Smokers won't pay $3.00 a pack for tobacco; they'll head for the Indian reservations or the Internet to stock up. And California will actually lose revenue as a result. Yeah smokers are not a constituency that has any real political friends in either party but contrary to the boasts of the Assembly Speaker, they still have choice about where to find the cartons needed to blow smoke in his and the rest of the clueless liberals' faces.
Hehehe, remember (according to Stan Glantz) Californians are kept from buying elsewhere because we're "surrounded by mountains, deserts and an ocean."
Folks, the United Pro Choice Smoker's Rights Newsletter has links at the bottom to each state's lawmakers. Make use of them and subscribe (it's free) to stay ahead of the freedom-hating, tax-loving bastages.