The tobacco industry’s “No on 56” campaign, which has accumulated a war chest of more than $56 million (so far), is nothing new. Here are the two main arguments appearing on the “No on 56” campaign website: “Prop. Proposition 56 would raise the state’s cigarette tax of 87 cents per pack, the 36th-highest state cigarette tax in the country, to $2.87, which still would leave it as only the ninth-highest. The No on 56 campaign suggests that devoting only 13% of the proceeds to anti-smoking programs will shortchange smokers. When I asked Miller what level of spending on anti-smoking programs would have prompted her industry patrons to support Proposition 56, she demurred.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 07, 2016 12:56 UTC