Reality Check: Most Expensive Statewide Ballot Measure Is Amendment 72
DENVER (CBS4) - The most expensive measure on the Colorado ballot this year is Amendment 72.
Philip Morris has spent more than $16 million to fight the amendment.
It calls for raising taxes on tobacco by $315 million a year. Many health groups think it's great. Cigarette companies? Not so much.
Watch CBS4 Political Specialist Shaun Boyd's Reality Check of the dueling ads that have been airing.
Shaun Boyd's sources for this Reality Check are as follows:
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports/preventing-youth-tobacco-use/index.html
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/diseases/cancer.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3228562/
https://www.acscan.org/pdf/tobacco/reports/acscan-tobacco-taxes-report-summary.pdf
http://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMsa1407211
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/campaign/tips/resources/data/cigarette-smoking-in-united-states.html
http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/Initiatives/titleBoard/filings/2015-2016/143Final.pdf
http://www.leg.state.co.us/LCS/Initiative%20Referendum/1516initrefr.nsf/b74b3fc5d676cdc987257ad8005bce6a/56b31fa0f60d408e87257fb9007d0a09/$FILE/2015-2016%20143bb.pdf
https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/news/colorado-cigarette-sales-rise-first-time-decade
https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/A35-tobacco
https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/cdphe/all-funding
