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Proposition 86

California Statewide • 2006 •  Initiative 

Failed

Result: 48.3% yes, 51.7% no

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This measure would have imposed an additional $2.60 tax per pack of cigarettes and equivalent taxes on other tobacco products, with revenues funding emergency medical services, nursing education, tobacco use prevention programs, and research on childhood diseases. The tax would have been added to existing state and federal tobacco taxes.

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