SF News Hoard 'Em If You Got 'Em: CA Cigarettes To Cost $2 More Per Pack As Of Saturday Smokers, it's time to start setting aside more cash for your habit, or to quit it altogether: On Saturday, the voter-approved tax increase of $2 per pack of cigarettes kicks in, making your
SF News SF Billionaire Activist Tom Steyer Officially Becomes Biggest Spender In 2016 Election It looks like SF hedge fund manager turned environmental activist Tom Steyer has earned the honor of becoming the single biggest spender in this election, except the majority of his money didn't go
SF News Cigarette Tax (Probably) Defeated By Narrow Margin, But Absentee Ballots May Decide It Big Tobacco seems to have gotten their way yesterday, and Californians who made it to the polls voted down Prop 29, the cigarette tax by about a one-point margin. After spending millions of
SF News Willie Brown Predicts Booming Black Market For Cigarettes Avuncular former Mayor and noted political soothsayer Willie Brown has seen the future of California's tobacco trade, and it is about to go underground. With Proposition 29 on the ballot tomorrow*, Willie believes
