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HARVARD, 93-73 at Briggs Cage Cent. Conn. 28 45 -- 73 Harvard...
Smokers and storekeepers yesterday expressed a mixture of anger and disappointment at the passage of Question One, a statewide referendum which places a 25 cent per-pack tax on cigarettes...
Question One would raise the 26-cent tax on a pack of cigarettes to 51 cents and channel the added revenue into a newly-created Health Protection Fund. The estimated $130 million that would be collected would be used to expand current smoking prevention efforts...
More important than its assistance to public health efforts would be the proposal's effect on discouraging young people from taking up smoking. Supporters of the initiative estimate that a 25-cent hike in cigarette prices would result in 80,000 people quitting or deciding not to experiment with this deadly addiction...
...passed, Question 4--known as the Polluter Pay Initiative--would place a tax of one fifth of a cent per pound on the production and import of toxic chemicals and industrial petroleum products in Massachusetts...