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Getting key players to work together and defending against diversion‐California
Author(s) -
Martin Carolyn B.,
Beerline Donald,
Breslow Lester
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19981215)83:12a+<2697::aid-cncr7>3.0.co;2-n
Subject(s) - legislature , medicine , revenue , work (physics) , tax revenue , public administration , public economics , finance , business , political science , economics , law , engineering , mechanical engineering
Abstract OVERVIEW In 1988, Californians passed Proposition 99, which raised the tobacco tax from 10 cents to 35 cents and allocated 20% of the resulting revenues, approximately $100 million, for tobacco education and 5% for tobacco‐related research. Seventy percent was allocated for health care costs and 5% for the environment. In this report, the authors provide an overview of the process of implementing the tobacco education program, which is followed by a more detailed review and analysis of the major impediments to the program, i.e., the diversion of a significant portion of the funding voters had earmarked for tobacco education and research and the battles for legislative reauthorization of Proposition 99 in the 1990s. Cancer 1998;83:2697‐2701. © 1998 American Cancer Society.