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After the tobacco industry forced the policy to a referendum vote, in November 2022, California voters upheld ban over 63% of the vote, and the policy has since withstood all other industry challenges and was implemented in December 2022

So far, researchers looking at connections between wildfire smoke and COVID-19 think negative health impacts for COVID infected patients are more severe with wildfire smoke exposure and that due to lowered immune system function in the lungs, people exposed to wildfire smoke may be more likely to get COVID because they cant fight off the infection as well

That included $5 million to bolster the department's Tobacco Compliance Unit to 40 full-time equivalent staff