[Deagle]

I do love listening to Brown dodging his responsibility in the downfall of California..heh!

Not a problem here, but am laughing just a bit...haha.

[Drango]

One of the few tax increases I would support. Raising the cost of cigarettes decreases the demand. That’s a good thing.

[Wooly]

GEE What’s new about this. It is just the California Democrat party attempting to raise money that will be laundered through the American Heart Association. Every single ballot initiative is nothing but this.

[djf]

Since it seems that we are at the point where complications from obesity kill far more people than smoking tobacco does, AIN’T IT TIME FOR A TAX ON POTATO CHIPS???

[verklaring]

"...which would raise taxes on cigarettes by $1 a pack to fund cancer research and anti-smoking programs, as an approach to improve health and save lives."

Does any one serious believe that is where the money would go? It is more likely to be used to fund planned Parenthood or some other abomination.

[newzjunkey]

I thought there was already a tobacco tax in CA aimed at this purpose already.

[jmax]

A total of about a quarter of a trillion dollars was awarded to states for medical research, various medical programs, stop-smoking education / campaigns. Everyone should reserch their states to see where the money is being spent. Millions have gone to school teachers, road repairs, miscellaneous city and state services, state and city employee salaries, city parks, swimming pools, water & sewage facilities, etc, etc. They always tie cigarettes to something in order to reallocate the money, ie; "This new 2 million dollar swimming pool will allow our children to swim after school instead of hanging out on street corners smoking". Or, "we need the funds for the new senior citizen center..... it's the least we can do for our parents and grandparents who have had their health ruined by those evil tobacco companies,,,,I mean they forced them to smoke....even had a cowboy on TV and billboards on a horse and wearing a Marlborro coat smoking some kind of nasty cigarette. Therefore, there is no better use for this money. I mean it's just sitting in the bank and not being used." Some state officials from across the country who illegally used the tobacco money should probably be in the slammer, sharing a cell with the likes of the chief tobacco trial lawyer Dickie Scruggs & his wannabe son, Zack, and Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Oliver Diaz who was raking in the bribes from the tobacco lawyers.

Just the opinion of someone who has smoked thousands and thousands of cigarettes in the past 45 years or so, while knowing they were not good for me. Finally quit on my own a couple of years ago.....cold turkey. DON'T ANYONE TELL ME I SHOULDa - woulda - coulda HAVE QUIT SOONER ,,,,,,,IT WAS MY RIGHT TO DO WHAT I WANTED. Even went to a war to protect that right. Should I ever one day regret smoking (and it's a good chance I will), it will be my choice to regret it.

They will be coming after your baby's diapers and milk bottle next. I mean, those trial lawyers lost millions in this recession and will be wanting to refill their offshore accounts.

[Seabeejas]

If this is really about cancer research, why don’t they contribute the money they were going to spend on the multimillion dollar campaign to that research?