One person's smoke in a park overwhelms the flowers' scents for everyone
HB 0911 Pub
OK, so as you might expect, a draconian surcharge strongly discouraged potential enrollees from signing up for health insurance coverage
Proposition 56, a voter initiative to increase state tobacco taxes, was approved with a remarkable 64.43% state-wide yes vote, establishing The California Healthcare, Research and Prevention Tobacco Tax Act of 2016. In addition to increasing the tax on a pack of cigarettes by $2, the first state tax increase on tobacco products in 28 years, the law levied a new tax on electronic cigarettes
Plaintiffs' lawyers, however, unearthed thousands of incriminating internal industry documents that showed the tobacco companies added hundreds of ingredients to cigarettes, targeted teenagers through cartoon marketing efforts and took significant steps to cover up the dangers of smoking