The survey also showed that if people knew that Sacramentans for Fair Business Practices was actually a front for the tobacco industry, 48 percent would be more likely to vote for the ordinance, and 69 percent felt that such use of a front organization was dishonest.48 The tobacco industry, through CFBP, spent $1,775,379 on its campaign to defeat Measure G, using mailers, radio advertisements, television spots, personalized absentee ballot registration forms, and a Kentucky-based telephone bank
Despite the objections of health advocates to the tobacco industry's questionable tactics, enough signatures were validated to suspend the ordinance
We cannot afford to lose another generation to tobacco-caused addiction, disease, and death, according to a release from the American Lung Association
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