State Proposition 86 Debate:

Should the state impose an additional tax of $2.60 per cigarette pack to fund new and expanded health services, health insurance for children, and expand tobacco use prevention programs?

Produced by the Midpeninsula Community Media Center and Foothill College Public Sociology Honors Class

Speakers:

Yes on Prop 86 Speaker: Ted Lempert
No on Prop 86 Speaker: withdrew from the debate

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Taped at Foothill College on October 18, 2006

	Introduction by Moderator
	Opening Statements
	Hospital Exemption in Prop 86
	Impact on Retailers
	Illegal sales of cigarettes
	Impact on deficit
	Military stores
	Addiction to tobacco
	Whose providing oversight of funds
	700,000 children will be prevented from smoking
	Hospital exemption from anti-trust laws
	why are costs not imposed on tobacco companies
	Price of cigarettes
	Improving healthcare
	Tobacco tax bureaucrats
	Closing statements/Outro by Moderator

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