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Proposition 29: This measure would raise the state’s cigarette tax by one dollar, from 87 cents to $1.87. Proposition 29 would raise an estimated 800 million annually, with virtually all of the money going to cancer research and to programs to prevent people from smoking and to help them quit. KCRW explains:
[...] $60 million has been spent to fund campaigns for and against Proposition 29, which aims to increase taxes on cigarettes by $1 per [...]