Cigarette Tax
* Your Dec. 16 editorial quite correctly points out that none of the money raised by Proposition 10 has yet been spent or even appropriated for the vague but noble purposes indicated in the proposition, which was opposed by nearly half the voters.
It should also be noted that a 50-cent cigarette tax, the basis for the proposition’s funding, is primarily a tax on the poor and, at least in Southern California, lies inordinately on minority groups.
Fortunately, the nearly 50% of the voters opposed to this trendy nonsense, myself included, will get another shot at it next March.
DON M. MANKIEWICZ
Monrovia
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