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They crave nicotine to satisfy a powerful addiction while hating the health consequences that smoking inflicts upon them

AB 99 passed in the Assembly Health Committee by a 12-0 vote on March 5, 1991, in the Assembly Ways and Means Committee by a 19-0 vote on March 20, and on the Assembly floor by a 68-0 vote on March 21.23 The health groups continued to ignore the original mandate for how the Proposition 99 money was to be spent, and they abandoned any interest in framing the issue as obeying the will of the voters. Isenberg again chaired the legislative conference committee that was to draft new legislation

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One factor we left out entirely is any business taxes paid by the bootlegger