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Proposition 86: Should Smokers Save ER's and Provide Healthcare for Children?

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Proposition 86 on the November ballot would triple the cigarette tax, bringing the total price per pack to about $6.60.  We hear the pros and cons of a measure pitting hospitals against big tobacco.  Plus, an update on the California gubernatorial campaign.

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Proposition 86: Should Smokers Save ER's and Provide Healthcare for Children? ()

Proposition 86 would triple the cigarette tax, from 87¢ to $3.47 a pack, bringing the total cost for a cigarette pack to about $6.60. The estimated $2.1 billion raised every year would give health insurance to kids who don't have it and reimburse emergency rooms for serving the uninsured. Most of the $50 million raised to fight Prop 86 comes from the tobacco companies. There's $13 million against it, mostly from hospitals.  Would Prop 86 make California a healthier state? Is it fair to smokers? Would it encourage cigarette smuggling by criminal gangs?

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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.

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