Bryan Pease And Dennis Ridz, District 1

>> >>: At La Jolla's Sanford Burnham institute, more than 500 people are insolved in cancer research. Dr.ÊSer Courtneidge directs one of the labs. For more than seven years, Courtneidge has been studying how cancer cells invade tissues. >> >>: In the primary tumor and the spread of the cancer around the body. The which is what most people will die of. We're very interested in finding the mechanism by which cancer cells move and invade and thinking of ways to come up with new therapeutics that would target that. >> >>: Court nj points out it takes years of false starts to get even one potential cancer drug to market. That requires a lot of money. Courtneidge and other cancer researchers main source of funds is the federal government, but she says federal grants are becoming much tough toor get. >> >>: We have a lot of ideas, and particularly in California, there are some terrific cancer researchers who are being limited right now in terms of what they can do. It's not their imagination, but it's the resources for them to be able to bring this forward. >> >>: Prop 29 would be a wind fall for research. It would raise tobacco tax by a dollar a pack. Some of the money would go to smoking prevention. Most f it would go to cancer research. The American lung u sos association is one of prop 29's major backers. The association's Deborah Kelly says California used to have one of the highest tobacco tax rates in the country. But since California last raised tobacco taxes in 1998, a lot of other state have passed us by. >> >>: We are standing at a pathetic third 33rd. That means 32 other state have higher tobacco taxes than we do. >> >>: The tax on a pack of cigarettes would jump from 87 cents to a dollar 87. >> >>: The only peep tool pay this are the people who continue to smoke. They're going to be more motivated to quit smoking, or smoke less, fewer kids are going to start smoking, and so all together, this is going to mean a huge decrease in the number of people bhoo smoke. >> >>RAY ELLIS: That has tobacco companies up in arms, they've bank roll ad massive ad campaign againsted smoke. >> >>: I thought prop tboin was a good idea. Then I read it. It raises 735Êmillion dollars in tobacco taxes, but not one penny goes to new funding for cancer treatment. Instead, it creates a huge new research beur awk bureaucracy with no accountability. >> >>: It doesn't require the taxes be spent in California creating jobs. >> >>: Defeat prop 29, that's nearly four times as much money as backers have raised p.but supporters of the measure remain undeterred. San Diego al rnlgests admit smokers already pay more than 5 dollars a pack. >> >>: It's annex pensive pass time to smoke, but it's not a deterrent enough. Data shows about a 10% increase in the cost of a pack of cigarettes about 4 to 5Êpercent of people will not take up the habit or stop the habit. Those numbers sound good. >> >>: The possibility of getting more money for kangs cancer research sounds good to San Diego scientific community. Especially Dr.ÊChristina VORI. >> >>: Medical research is one of the drivers for the economy in San Diego and in many parts of the state in general. I think it will be very helpful to spark the economy at these timeswhen things are not as they were some time ago.