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New Prop 29 ad directly confronts tobacco industry propaganda

Submitted by sglantz on Tue, 2012-05-29 21:47

Many people have been asking me why the Yes on 29 people have not been running an ad directly confronting Philip Morris and Reynolds' claims about the initiative.  I have certainly shared that view.

Well, the Yes people now have released such an ad.  Check it out here.

New Prop 29 ad directly confronts tobacco industry propaganda

Submitted by sglantz on Tue, 2012-05-29 21:47

Many people have been asking me why the Yes on 29 people have not been running an ad directly confronting Philip Morris and Reynolds' claims about the initiative.  Well, the Yes people now have release such an ad.  Check it out here.

Three UCSF faculty appear in Yes on Prop 29 ad

Submitted by sglantz on Fri, 2012-05-25 19:00

John Maa, Regis Kelley and I are in a new Yes on 29 ad.  Check it out by clicking here.

Per UC policy we are speaking as individuals, not as representatives of the University.  (The Regents, who do speak for UC, have endorsed Prop 29.)

 

Cigarettes are cheap in California

Submitted by sglantz on Fri, 2012-05-25 07:08

Because current cigarette taxes are so low in California, cigarettes are cheaper here than in the US as a whole.

According to The Tax Burden on Tobacco (page 182) in 2010 the average pack of cigarettes in California costs $5.374 compared to$5.554 for the US as a whole.  The low price in California reflects the tobacco companies' success in keeping taxes in California; total taxes only comprise 35.0% of the price of a pack of cigarettes compared to 44.2% for the US as a whole.

Cheap cigarettes promote smoking. Read more »

CDC ranks California 26th in tobacco control spending; Prop 29 would bring it up to 7th

Submitted by sglantz on Thu, 2012-05-24 12:18

Once upon a time, right after the voters saw through essentially the same campaign that Philip Morris and Reynolds ran in 1988 and passed Prop 99,  California had the largest most aggressive tobacco control program in the country. Read more »

After Big Tobacco spends $40 million, Prop 29 is still winning by 11 points

Submitted by sglantz on Wed, 2012-05-23 22:02

The widely-respected nonpartisan Public Policy Policy Institute of California just released a poll showing that Prop 29 is winning with 53 percent of voters planning to cote yes compared to 42 percent "no."  While this is about a 10 point drop in the yes vote compared to where things were before Philip Morris and Reynolds dumped $40 million into California trying to bury the campaign, the fact that 29 is still ahead shows that most of the people are still not buying the lies. Read more »

American Cancer Society really steps up its support for Prop 29

Submitted by sglantz on Tue, 2012-05-22 21:12

Today the American Cancer Society really put its money where its mouth is and made two contributions totaling $2.5 million to the Yes on 29 campaign ($2,420,000 from ACS and $80,000 from the ACS Cancer Action Network).  Laurene Powell Jobs (wife of Steve Jobs) also gave $25,000. Read more »

Thousands of previously secret tobacco industry documents reveal links between Big Tobacco and No on 29 endorsers

Submitted by sglantz on Sat, 2012-05-19 18:46

The tobacco companies are working assiduously to make it look like there is a genuine grassroots opposition to California Proposition 29.  We have over 802 million pages of previously secret tobacco industry documents in the UCSF Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.  My colleague Kate Swartz did quick searches on many of the organizations whose names appear on No on 29 materials.  While we did not have time to screen all these documents but it is clear that there are thousands of documents linking these groups (often fina Read more »

Telling nondaily smokers that their secondhand smoke hurts others helps them quit better than traditional counselling

Submitted by sglantz on Wed, 2012-05-16 22:36

Rebecca Schane, Jodi Prochaska and I just published a paper in Nicotine and Tobacco Research that compared counseling nondaily smokers on the effects of secondhand smoke on others with counseling on the dangers of smoking to the smokers.  Three months later the 7-day quit rate was three times higher among the people counseled about secondhand smoke. Read more »

Bullet point summary of Prop 29 and the campaign to date

Submitted by sglantz on Wed, 2012-05-16 17:04

·         Prop 29 would increase the tobacco tax by $1 a pack of cigarettes with corresponding increases for other tobacco products.
·         The money would go to reinvigorate California’s anti-smoking campaign (about 23 cents), cancer and other medical research (about 70 cents, including some money for facilities), about 3 cents for law enforcement of tobacco control laws, 2 cents for administration. Read more »

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