Claim(permalink)
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."
✓politifact rating: not credible; published on 2016-10-25
Factors
veracity
not credible
Political Leaning
left political leaning
Sentiment
neutral sentiment
Date published
2016-10-25
Entities
MarsStethoscopeTobacco industryCredit ratingFact-checkingPolitiFactNonpartisanismConscription in the United StatesWalter ScottCharles I of EnglandPhysicianArnold SchwarzeneggerAssociated PressImpose (magazine)CigaretteDemocracyFake newsHealth insuranceCaliforniaInitiativeNo Campaign (UK)Big TobaccoThe Sacramento BeeManaged care