Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has written more checks totaling $2.2 million to help buttress the campaign to save Denver’s flavored tobacco ban, according to a new finance report.

Bloomberg donated that amount directly to the pro- Referendum 310 campaign during the last two weeks of October, as Tuesday’s election approaches. The report filed late Friday for the supporters’ campaign, “Denver Kids vs Big Tobacco,” also included a $49,500 in-kind donation from Bloomberg cited for research.

The former New York City mayor, a staunch opponent of the tobacco industry, is now responsible for just shy of $5 million of the $5.8 million in fundraising by the Denver campaign, which has lately aired TV ads. Much of the rest of its support has come from the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund, according

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