Under California's Prop 86, approximately 85 percent of the new tax would pay for programs unrelated to smoking, but 100 percent of the tax is paid by the small percentage of people including cigar and pipe smokers. Why should one segment of society pay 100 percent of the taxes when the money goes to things like obesity control and health insurance premiums? If funding these programs is as important as proponents claim, all Californians should share the burden. It is unfair to single out one group of people to pay for programs that affect the entire population.
Voters have resisted recent attempts to tax one segment of the population to pay for unrelated state programs. In June 2006, voters rejected Prop. 82 to tax high-income earners to pay for universal preschool. In November 2005, voters rejected Prop. 67 to tax phone services to pay for emergency room services - a previous attempt by hospitals to generate money to benefit themselves.

-- from the CalLiberty website