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Opponents of Proposition 56 said during the campaign that with just 13 percent of the new tobacco tax money earmarked for anti-smoking efforts, the tax would mostly benefit insurers and other wealthy special interests on the backs of smokers, many of whom are poor
They contain more total nicotine and produce more smoke per stick, but they're generally not inhaled the way cigarettes are, which changes how much nicotine and smoke actually reaches your lungs
And the industry works to keep poorer peoplethose who can least afford the costs of tobacco-related diseasehooked