
Drivers zipping down Southeast 82nd Avenue can’t miss the billboard of a black-and-white cow with a greenback in its mouth: “Smokers are not the state’s cash cow!”
Across town, canvassers armed with fliers of cigar-chomping tobacco makers and fresh-faced children hit Portland homes last weekend to pitch their case for a statewide tobacco tax increase.
It’s all part of Measure 50, on track to be the most expensive state political campaign in Oregon history. More…