Year: 1993
Type: article
Abstract: For those of you who don't know, in California we had a 25 cent increase in the price of a packet of cigarettes with Proposition 99 in November 1988.Twenty percent of these revenues were earmarked for Health Edu cation, Prevention & Cessation efforts.How ever, we were unable to get expenditure authority from the legislature for nearly a year.The tobacco industry was very skilful and introduced a whole slew of bills and tied up our smoking legislation so that essentially we got cracking only in late 1989.Let me just touch on some of the numbers that Gary mentioned and give you the Cali fornia equivalents.In 1990, the US adult smoking prevalence was 25.5%.In 1991, it was 25.7%, a marginal increase.I think it's a bit of a blip or artifact.In California in 1988, when the initiative passed, we had an adult smoking prevalence of 26.7%.In 1990 it had decreased to 22.2 % and our latest survey, in early-mid 1992, showed it to be 20.0%.The absolute decline since 1988 has been 23.6 % in California.Unlike the 3 % increase in the national rates among African-Americans between 1990 and 91, from 26% to 29%, in California African American rates are actually quite close to non Hispanic whites.We've got a mix of cessation, prevention and environmental strategies.My own and my programmes are less rigorous than those used in MRFIT, we see less participation of black smokers in the traditional formal programmes.
Source: Tobacco Control
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4247767338