Claim: California's proposed tobacco tax "diverts 82 percent of the new taxes to line the pockets of wealthy special interests like insurance companies who don't have to help even one more patient."
Fact-check: Tobacco industry's 'doctor ad' misleads in Prop 56 claim
Verdict: barely-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Chris Nichols
Date published: 2016-10-25T00:00:00