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The fight is just heating up...

Monday, December 10, 2007
 
The tobacco companies have begun robo-calls against a possible increase in the cigarette tax to help fund health care, at least according to one Assembly office. It's reported by Bill Ainsworth in the San Diego Union-Tribune news blog.

Given the fact that even smokers support tobacco tax increases, it's hard to see the point... other than placing the spotlight on a disliked industry and its practices.

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Anthony Wright is the executive director,
with a background as a consumer advocate and community organizer on many issues, including health issues for the last ten years in California and New Jersey.


 
Hanh Kim Quach is the policy coordinator; previously serving as
a newspaper reporter covering the Capitol for the Orange County Register and other papers for eight years