Facing a statewide advertising barrage aimed at defeating Prop. 29, local supporters of the cigarette tax initiative are waging their own voter information blitz through phone banks aimed at reaching voters directly. With only three days left before Tuesday's election, the final skirmishes over the initiative are playing out all over the state, including Sonoma County, where the new county health officer made a public appeal to voters.
Lynn Silver Chalfin, a former assistant health commissioner for New York City, said voter approval of Prop. 29 would save lives by reducing the number of people who smoke or become addicted to smoking. “Smoking is like an earthquake that hits Sonoma County every year,” she said, adding that smoking is linked to 500 deaths each year in Sonoma County caused by cancer, heart and lung disease. For their part, opponents say the initiative, while well-meaning, is flawed and creates a huge spending program with no oversight by the governor or Legislature.
“We all support cancer research, but at a time when we have a $16 billion budget deficit and can't even fund schools, the last thing this state needs is another unaccountable spending program,” said Joel Fox, president of the Los-Angeles based Small Business Action Committee. Fox, whose group is part of the statewide coalition opposing Prop. 29, said the measure allows “tax dollars to be spent creating jobs in other states” and creates large, uncontrolled bureaucracy. Supporters call such claims misleading and political scare tactics. According to the state voter information guide, Prop. 29 would increase the tax on a pack of cigarettes by $1, raising the total cigarette tax in California to $1.87.
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