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Molly Joel Coye, MD, MPH
State of California Health and Welfare Agency Sacramento

JAMA. 1993;269(3):358.

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To the Editor.

—Your recent reports on the proposed redirection of tobacco tax revenues from prevention to medical treatment in California^1,2 were both incorrect and misleading, and did a grave disservice to those of us who are struggling to balance the competing public health goals of prevention and medical care in the midst of a disastrous budget situation. The factual irregularities contained in the article are serious, but too numerous to address here. Instead, I would like to address the broader policy issue raised in these articles and comment on your report of the California Senate hearings on my confirmation as director of the Department of Health Services (DHS).

The deficit in the California state budget this year was larger than the entire budgets of all but two other states in this country, and it has continued to soar out of control. As the recession worsened last summer, the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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