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After the state sliced the tobacco prevention budget nearly in half last session to roughly $8 million a year, the states Department of State Health Services ended its enforcement grants for local police departments

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Kizer, even though he disagrees with the Department of Health Services' attack approach with the anti-tobacco advertisement.2 Seeing little chance of success with the Deukmejian administration, the industry decided to concentrate its efforts on getting the Legislature to eliminate funding for the media campaign

These produce a depressant and relaxant effect and can also have mind-altering effects that can lead to abuse.
