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To the Editor: The lessons from the California Tobacco Control Program, as reported by Fichtenberg and Glantz (Dec. 14 issue),¹ are critical to public health. Unlike most other states, California, using 5 cents of every 25-cent tax collected on a package of cigarettes, undertook the largest tobacco-control program ever implemented, with subsequent declines in cigarette consumption and mortality from heart disease.

States newly flush with the resources from the Master Settlement Agreement between the states' attorneys general and the tobacco industry should allocate at least the per capita amount recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,² so that . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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