Opinion: Act Needed To Boost Work on Cancer, Tobacco
The California Cancer Research Act, which supporters are attempting to qualify for the 2012 ballot, would spend $500 million to find ways to prevent, detect and treat cancer, as well as raise the cigarette tax by $1 per pack to fund tobacco education efforts, Don Perata (D), former Senate President Pro Tempore and current Oakland mayoral candidate, writes in a San Jose Mercury News opinion piece. Perata urges state residents to support the initiative and "strike a serious blow to cancer and set an example for the rest of the nation."
- "Opinion: 2012 Initiative Will Take Aim at Cancer -- and Tobacco" (Perata, San Jose Mercury News, 7/8).