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...SOCCER 4, Cent...
...Aside from the horsemeat question, there are more, uh, meaty issues on the table in California, of course. The original Meathead himself, Rob Reiner, is fronting for a California proposition that would tack a 50 cent-per-pack increase onto the price of cigarettes. Smoke of another kind -- medical marijuana -- gets a look in five states and the District of Columbia (no, Marion Barry is not behind this), while abortion-limiting proposals come before the voters in two more states. In Hawaii, voters are being asked to decide the fate of same-sex marriages. Our favorite resolution? In four states...
...author and chief promoter of one of the more ambitious pieces of social legislation ever crafted on a state level. Picking up where the U.S. Congress left off when a proposed $368 billion federal tobacco lawsuit settlement was killed in June, Prop 10 would add a 50[cent] tax to each pack of cigarettes sold in California. The money, up to $700 million a year, would be channeled into antitobacco programs and early-childhood health and education. The higher prices would result in an estimated 25% drop in smoking--and consequent savings in the state's $7 billion annual cost...
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...solid stockpile of sodas, candy bars and ice creams pint left by the "day crew," Larry is hardly a busy guy. In fact, as his co-worker Gwendolyn informs us, he spends the majority of his time flirting with "the Harvard girls that come in to buy 50 cent Snickers bars." Gwendolyn does a charming impression of their habit of prententiously slapping down platinum credit cards on the counter and asking, "Ah, do you take Visa?" Indeed, Larry sees it all--sometimes too much...