Total spending for the three-year contract, which includes the state's largest anti-tobacco campaign yet, was estimated at $52 million.
The next step in the anti-tobacco campaign came in July 1943, when public smoking for persons under the age of 18 was outlawed.
The cigarette manufacturing companies in Germany made several attempts to weaken the anti-tobacco campaign.
The move was the latest action in a sustained anti-tobacco campaign by the Government and health groups over the last few years.
Albany also needs to find enough money for an anti-tobacco campaign, given the $1-billion-a-year windfall coming soon from the national settlement with tobacco companies.
Under Governor Davis, California's anti-tobacco campaign became one of the largest and most effective in the nation.
He has always been an activist in anti-tobacco campaigns.