Guide to the Colorado Tobacco Tax Initiative / Fair Share for Health Committee, 1991-1994, n.d.
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Guide to the Colorado Tobacco Tax Initiative / Fair Share for Health Committee, 1991-1994, n.d.
Collection number: MSS 96-45
UCSF Library & CKM
Archives and Special Collections
University of California, San Francisco
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- Archives and Special Collections
- 530 Parnassus Ave.
- San Francisco, CA 94143-0840
- Phone: (415) 476-8112
- Fax: (415) 476-4653
- Email: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/collections/archives/contact
- URL: http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
- Processed by:
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© 1998 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Colorado Tobacco Tax Initiative / Fair Share for Health Committee,
Date (inclusive): 1991-1994, n.d.
Collection number: MSS 96-45
Collector: Colorado Tobacco Tax Initiative / Fair Share for Health Committee.
Extent: Number of containers: 1 carton
Linear feet: approx. 1
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections.
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
The Colorado Tobacco Tax Initiative / Fair Share for Health Committee records were given to the Tobacco Control Archives by
Dr. Stanton A. Glantz.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to the Library & Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Archives & Special Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Library & Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Colorado Tobacco Tax Initiative / Fair Share for Health Committee, MSS 96-45, Archives & Special
Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Organizational History
Most anti-tobacco legislation in Colorado has been done on the local level. In 1987, the Fair Share for Health Committee (FSHC),
whose major donors included the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, and the American Lung Association,
began a statewide campaign to increase the cigarette tax by fifty cents per pack. Due to legal challenges by the tobacco industry,
however, the initiative did not make it on to the ballot until 1994 as Amendment 1.
FSHC's campaign faced intense opposition from the tobacco industry, lead by the Citizens Against Tax Abuse and Government
Waste and the Colorado Executive Committee, both heavily subsidized by the tobacco industry. [Note:
Fred M. Monardi,Amanda O'Neill,and
Stanton A. Glanz.
Tobacco Industry Political Activity in Colorado 1979-1995 (San Francisco: Institute for Health Policy Studies University of California),
1996.In addition to challenging the wording of the amendment's title, summary, and analysis, the pro-tobacco faction charged that
FSHC and KOA (a Denver radio station) had engaged in bribery by offering baseball tickets to signers of initiative petitions,
and made allegations that FSHC had received illegal in-kind donations from state employees and departments (including the
Colorado Department of Health). On its side, FSHC's filed a complaint against R.J. Reynolds over an advertisement paid for
by the tobacco company.
Amendment 1 was defeated in November 1994, having received only 38.5 percent of the vote.
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of photocopies of documents covering the campaign to pass an increase of the tobacco tax in Colorado
through an amendment to the Colorado State Constitution. Most of the materials were generated by the Fair Share for Health
Committee (FSHC) and Arnold Levinson, the Executive Director of the Committee.
The collection includes court records, correspondence, publicity materials, budgets and other financial documents, drafts
of the amendment, the initiative petition and ballot statement, as well as fundraising and volunteer materials.
The records in this collection deal primarily with the final drive by the FSHC to get the amendment on the 1994 ballot, and
include court records and correspondence documenting the several legal challenges against Amendment 1 by the pro-tobacco faction.
Other materials in the collection document FSHC's response to a claim by a pro-tobacco source that the cigarette tax would
be used to pay for abortions. Organizational and campaign planning materials make up the remainder of the collection. Planning
materials include a campaign agenda, reports from a planning retreat and focus groups, budgets and other financial documents.
Other basic organizational documents include articles of incorporation, bylaws, agendas and minutes for FSHC. Media and development
materials document fundraising, volunteer recruitment and coalition building, and include press releases, ad copy and speaker
packets. There is also one folder containing material prepared by the Colorado Secretary of State about the initiative process.
The records in this collection are arranged alphabetically by subject.
Carton Carton 1, Folder 1
Folder 2
Articles of Incorporation/Bylaws for FSHC
1993-94
Folder 3
Background -- Colorado Initiative Law
1993-94
Folder 4
Campaign Blue Book -- Ballot Analysis
1993-94
Folder 5
Campaign Strategy
1991-94
Folder 7
Complaint Against R.J. Reynolds Advertisement
1994
Folder 8
Contacts -- Health Care Community
1993-94
Folder 9
CTFC Tobacco Tax Task Force
1991-92
Folder 11-12
Financial Documents -- Contributions & Expenditures
1994
Folder 13
Financial Documents -- Tobacco-side
1992-94
Folder 14-15
FSHC -- Agendas, minutes
1993-94
Folder 16
FSHC -- Board minutes
1993
Folder 17-19
FSHC -KOA "Bribery" Case
1994
Folder 20
Fundraising -- Hospitals
1993
Folder 21
General Budget Ideas
1994
Folder 23
In-Kind Case -- Donald Coleman v. FSHC
1994
Folder 24
Kitchen Cabinet Meeting
1994
Folder 28
Notes/Memos -- Focus Group, Media, Expenditures, Plans
1993-94
Folder 29
Petition to Initiate/ Proposed Amendment
April 1993
Folder 30
Petition to Initiate/ Proposed Amendment
November 1993
Folder 31
Professional Service Matters
May 1993
Folder 32
Publicity Materials -- Drafts
1994
Folder 33
Publicity Materials Press Release, Clippings
1994
Folder 34
Publicity Materials -- Speakers' Kit
1994
Folder 35
Publicity -- News Releases
1994
Folder 37
Signature Drive Training Literature
n.d.
Folder 38
Signature Receipts & Petition Circulation Payments
1994
Folder 39
Smuggling of Tobacco Products
1994
Folder 40
Suit Challenging Colorado Department of Health's Involvement in Campaign
1994
Folder 41
Survey of Voters Attitudes
1993
Folder 43-46
Title Setting Case
1993-94
Folder 47
Tobacco Industry -- Contributions
1994
Folder 48
Tobacco Industry & Media
1994
Folder 49
Tobacco Tax Retreat
Feb. 5, 1993
Folder 51
Volunteers -- Literature/ contests
1994, n.d.