The tobacco industry has no shame. It lies and distorts while spending enormous sums to perpetuate the evils of smoking.
It spent $50 million recently to defeat Proposition 29 on the ballot in California. An editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle rightly called it an “outrageously deceptive” campaign.
“All Californians, smokers and nonsmokers, pay the price of smoking,” the Chron said. “In their private insurance premiums and tax dollars they contribute to public medical coverage. All of us are subsidizing the true cost of smoking.”
Prop 29 would have raised cigarette taxes by $1 a pack. The cost for a pack in California is about $5.70, never high enough for the “evil weed.”
An industry responsible for the cancer-related deaths of 500,000 Americans annually has no conscience.
It spent $50 million recently to defeat Proposition 29 on the ballot in California. An editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle rightly called it an “outrageously deceptive” campaign.
“All Californians, smokers and nonsmokers, pay the price of smoking,” the Chron said. “In their private insurance premiums and tax dollars they contribute to public medical coverage. All of us are subsidizing the true cost of smoking.”
Prop 29 would have raised cigarette taxes by $1 a pack. The cost for a pack in California is about $5.70, never high enough for the “evil weed.”
An industry responsible for the cancer-related deaths of 500,000 Americans annually has no conscience.
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Kerry Lauerman
Joan Walsh
Salon.com
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