San Francisco has been aggressive in recent few years about ensuring that its residents and people who work here are free from secondhand smoke. But The City could do more, particularly in the area of creating smoke-free housing. Read More
Whether smokers will soon pay $1 more per pack for a tax that would go to fund cancer research remained unclear Tuesday as the results were too close to call.
Proposition 29 would raise the state’s excise tax on a pack of cigarettes from 87 cents to $1.87. Revenue from the measure, estimated at about $735 million in the first year, would be used to fund research on cancer and tobacco-related diseases, and for smoking prevention measures. Read More
