Calirfornia: Lance Armstrong campaigns for cigarette tax initiative

Mon, Feb 28 2011 — Source: San Francisco Chronicle

A week after Lance Armstrong announced his retirement from competitive cycling, the seven-time Tour de France winner is coming to California today on a political tour - to push for a ballot initiative that would add $1 a pack to cigarettes to raise money for cancer research. “Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat, rich or poor, young or old,” Armstrong said in an interview.

Read the story from the San Francisco Chronicle