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San Francisco voters may have chance to overturn vaping ban

SACRAMENTO – The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted in June to make the city the first in the country to impose a total sales ban on flavored tobacco products, as similar ordinances spread across the Bay Area. It’s also

CalPERS considers – then rejects – efforts to end tobacco divestment

Steven Greenhut December 20, 2016

SACRAMENTO – As the nation’s largest state-based pension fund, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System is known for using its massive investment muscle to promote various social-investment causes. So-called ESGs – Environmental, Social and Governance issues – are a major

CalWatchdog Morning Read – September 7

CalWatchdog Staff September 7, 2016

Tobacco tax one of the most heated ballot measures Santa Ana declares homeless crisis Death row residents conflicted over competing death penalty ballot measures First Los Angeles County city approves marijuana cultivation Environmental group wants to reintroduce grizzly bears to the

Groups eye additional “sin tax” revenue

Joel Fox July 28, 2015

Is a tax on cigarettes a revenue raiser or a “sin tax” — used to discourage individuals from using products considered harmful? The effort to raise taxes on cigarettes – there is a measure in the Legislature as well a

Anti-smoking bills falter in Sacramento

James Poulos July 11, 2015

A surprise switch to a bill that would tightly regulate vaping has caused its sponsor to repudiate the legislation. State Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, had advanced SB140 confidently, riding a wave of anti-smoking activism that sought to treat vapes, or e-cigs, the

Bill to restrict e-cigarette use dies in committee

Josephine Djuhana July 8, 2015

On Wednesday, legislation that would classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products was amended and held in the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee. Senate Bill 140 author Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, dropped his support for the bill after committee amendments struck out portions of

Al Gore: Global warm doubters ‘immoral, unethical and skeptical’

John Seiler April 20, 2014

Whenever you read about Al Gore, keep in mind that he frolics in a compound in Montecito valued in 2010 at $8.875 million. Now it’s probably worth at least $12 million. Reported the Huffington Post at the time: “Records show

New fears push more California e-cig bans

James Poulos March 31, 2014

Southern California’s thriving e-cigarette industry faces a big new problem: nationwide, their products are becoming a hot new focal point of public health worries. In the latest report casting “vapes” in a negative light, the New York Times called the nicotine