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== Tobacco Control Advocates (Past and Present)== | == Tobacco Control Advocates (Past and Present)== | ||
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*'''Banzhaf, John''' | *'''Banzhaf, John''' | ||
:Founder of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), Banzhaf has never met a smoking restriction he did not like, having spoken in support, for example, of bans in apartment and condominium complexes, and job discrimination against smokers. All the way back in 2006 he made it clear that his ultimate intention was total control of smokers, even in their homes: [http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2006/02/26/states-time-to-stub-out-smoking.html "Here we are literally reaching into the last frontier — right into the home... No longer can you argue, ‘My home is my castle. I've got the right to smoke.’"] Also see some [http://www.velvetgloveironfist.com/john_banzhaf_smoking.php background on Banzhaf] by author Christopher Snowdon. | :Founder of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), Banzhaf has never met a smoking restriction he did not like, having spoken in support, for example, of bans in apartment and condominium complexes, and job discrimination against smokers. All the way back in 2006 he made it clear that his ultimate intention was total control of smokers, even in their homes: [http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2006/02/26/states-time-to-stub-out-smoking.html "Here we are literally reaching into the last frontier — right into the home... No longer can you argue, ‘My home is my castle. I've got the right to smoke.’"] Also see some [http://www.velvetgloveironfist.com/john_banzhaf_smoking.php background on Banzhaf] by author Christopher Snowdon. | ||
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*'''Bauld, Linda''' | *'''Bauld, Linda''' | ||
:A "smoking cessation expert" at the University of Bath until 2010, and now Professor of Socio-Management at the University of Stirling, United Kingdom, Dr. Bauld has displayed typical TC obliviousness in stating her incredulity that smokers should be appalled and enraged at government-supported programs designed to destroy smokers' finances, careers, families, social dignity, and their lives generally. | :A "smoking cessation expert" at the University of Bath until 2010, and now Professor of Socio-Management at the University of Stirling, United Kingdom, Dr. Bauld has displayed typical TC obliviousness in stating her incredulity that smokers should be appalled and enraged at government-supported programs designed to destroy smokers' finances, careers, families, social dignity, and their lives generally. | ||
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*'''Benowitz, Neal''' | *'''Benowitz, Neal''' | ||
:Prof. of medicine, UC San Francisco. A reviewer for ''Tobacco Control''. A member and discussion group chair for Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT). Known for his role in the redefinition of the word "addiction" so that it could specifically apply more strongly to smoking. | :Prof. of medicine, UC San Francisco. A reviewer for ''Tobacco Control''. A member and discussion group chair for Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT). Known for his role in the redefinition of the word "addiction" so that it could specifically apply more strongly to smoking. | ||
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*'''Bero, Lisa'''* | *'''Bero, Lisa'''* | ||
:Assistant Professor, Institute for Health Policy Studies, UC San Francisco. A colleague of and sometimes co-publisher with Stanton Glantz. Listed in RWJF media guide for “Quality of Research on Environmental Tobacco Smoke by Different Sponsors.” | :Assistant Professor, Institute for Health Policy Studies, UC San Francisco. A colleague of and sometimes co-publisher with Stanton Glantz. Listed in RWJF media guide for “Quality of Research on Environmental Tobacco Smoke by Different Sponsors.” | ||
:Bero has been given substantial RWJF money for this project, the results of which were published in ''JAMA'' (''Journal of the American Medical Association'') in 1999. Basically the “study” says any studies conducted with tobacco funding are bad, but those conducted with other funding (ostensibly including pharmaceutical money from RWJF) are good. A reviewer for ''Tobacco Control''. | :Bero has been given substantial RWJF money for this project, the results of which were published in ''JAMA'' (''Journal of the American Medical Association'') in 1999. Basically the “study” says any studies conducted with tobacco funding are bad, but those conducted with other funding (ostensibly including pharmaceutical money from RWJF) are good. A reviewer for ''Tobacco Control''. | ||
*'''Berteletti-Kemp, Florence''' | *'''Berteletti-Kemp, Florence''' | ||
− | :Works as a consultant on European Union health policy to the Smoke Free Partnership in Brussels and is the Vice President of the European Public Health Alliance | + | :Works as a consultant on European Union health policy to the Smoke Free Partnership in Brussels and is the Vice President of the European Public Health Alliance. |
*'''Biener, Lois'''* | *'''Biener, Lois'''* | ||
:Senior Research Fellow, University of Massachusetts at Boston Center for Survey Research, Boston MA. Listed as a media contact in RWJF’s guide for the “Survey on Responses to the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program.” The survey would, among other things, “determine the characteristics of smokers who are most responsive to media messages and to determine which segments of the population are most likely to adopt anti-tobacco stances.” Biener received $220,152 from RWJF for that “study.” She is a frequent RWJF grantee who often publishes journal articles with other RWJF grantees. | :Senior Research Fellow, University of Massachusetts at Boston Center for Survey Research, Boston MA. Listed as a media contact in RWJF’s guide for the “Survey on Responses to the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program.” The survey would, among other things, “determine the characteristics of smokers who are most responsive to media messages and to determine which segments of the population are most likely to adopt anti-tobacco stances.” Biener received $220,152 from RWJF for that “study.” She is a frequent RWJF grantee who often publishes journal articles with other RWJF grantees. | ||
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:Tobacco tax policy and international tobacco policy consultant, American Cancer Society. Manager of International Issues for Center for Tobacco-Free Kids. Lawyer and independent policy consultant, wrote “International Interests in U.S. Tobacco Legislation,” Policy Analysis No.3, Health Science Analysis Project of the Advocacy Institute, funded by RWJF and the ACS. | :Tobacco tax policy and international tobacco policy consultant, American Cancer Society. Manager of International Issues for Center for Tobacco-Free Kids. Lawyer and independent policy consultant, wrote “International Interests in U.S. Tobacco Legislation,” Policy Analysis No.3, Health Science Analysis Project of the Advocacy Institute, funded by RWJF and the ACS. | ||
*'''Bloomberg, Michael''' | *'''Bloomberg, Michael''' | ||
− | :Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a former smoker known to hold continuing personal affection for dietary indulgence, became Mayor of New York City in 2002. As mayor of New York, and through private contributions to TC and other agencies outside New York, Bloomberg has established himself as a world class enemy of personal responsibility and property rights regarding both smoking and the public's personal dietary choices. Criticism of "nanny" Bloomberg is now [http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77022.html approaching unanimity.] | + | :Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, a former smoker known to hold continuing personal affection for dietary indulgence, Bloomberg became Mayor of New York City in 2002. As mayor of New York, and through private contributions to TC and other agencies outside New York, Bloomberg has established himself as a world class enemy of personal responsibility and property rights regarding both smoking and the public's personal dietary choices. Criticism of "nanny" Bloomberg is now [http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0612/77022.html approaching unanimity.] |
*'''Blum, Alan''' | *'''Blum, Alan''' | ||
:Founder of the anti-tobacco organization Doctors Ought to Care (DOC). At Baylor University, Houston. An Honorary Board member of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation. | :Founder of the anti-tobacco organization Doctors Ought to Care (DOC). At Baylor University, Houston. An Honorary Board member of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation. | ||
*'''Bristow, Lonnie''' | *'''Bristow, Lonnie''' | ||
− | : | + | :Became president of AMA in June 1995 after serving as AMA board member since l985. A board member of the American Legacy Foundation from 1999, he had been a member of the federal Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health 1988–1994. Has been quoted as saying he wants to drive the tobacco industry out of business: "This is what I call a black flag war," he said of the AMA’s anti-tobacco campaign. "You fly a black flag when you mean: no prisoners. We’re committed to running the tobacco industry out of town” (“For AMA a new leader and direction: Group planning war on tobacco,” Jane M. Adams, ''Miami Herald'', June 13, 1995, p. 1A). |
+ | :With only 25% of U.S. physicians as full dues-paying members, only about one-third of the AMA’s annual $200 million budget comes from membership dues. The AMA has become increasingly dependent on federal funding, particularly from the Dept. of Health and Human Services, and supported the Clinton healthcare proposal (“What’s behind AMA support for Clintoncare?” Phyllis Schlafly, ''Conservative Chronicle'', September 23, 1998). The AMA has also become increasingly dependent on money from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and administers the RWJF multimillion-dollar anti-tobacco SmokeLess States program. Both the AMA and ''JAMA'' also get pharmaceutical industry funding. | ||
*'''Burke, James E.''' | *'''Burke, James E.''' | ||
:CEO and Chairman of the Board of Johnson & Johnson from l976 to l989 (he joined J&J in l953 and rose up the corporate ladder to head the corporation). Now a board member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Also a board member of the RWJF-funded Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), Chairman of the Board for the RWJF-funded Partnership for a Drug-Free America, and a board member of the ''Washington Post''. | :CEO and Chairman of the Board of Johnson & Johnson from l976 to l989 (he joined J&J in l953 and rose up the corporate ladder to head the corporation). Now a board member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Also a board member of the RWJF-funded Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), Chairman of the Board for the RWJF-funded Partnership for a Drug-Free America, and a board member of the ''Washington Post''. | ||
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:Co-Director of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights and ANR Foundation. Sat on the Koop/Kessler Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. Also sat on the Special Review Committee, which approved the NCI grant to Richard Daynard to assist in anti-tobacco litigation. Close associate of Stanton Glantz, co-founder and former head of ANR. | :Co-Director of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights and ANR Foundation. Sat on the Koop/Kessler Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. Also sat on the Special Review Committee, which approved the NCI grant to Richard Daynard to assist in anti-tobacco litigation. Close associate of Stanton Glantz, co-founder and former head of ANR. | ||
*'''Chaloupka, Frank'''* | *'''Chaloupka, Frank'''* | ||
− | + | :Assoc. Prof., economics dept., University of Illinois at Chicago; Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., North Aurora, Illinois. Very heavily funded by RWJF and listed as media contact in the RWJF guide for “Tobacco Prices, Restrictions, and Use Among Youth.” Chaloupka’s study, which was published by none other than the National Bureau of Economic Research according to a July 19, 1996 Tobacco-Free Kids press release for it, claimed that a 75-cent per pack increase in price would have cut overall youth smoking in half during the 1992–1994 Monitoring the Future Youth Survey years. Wherever there is talk of raising tobacco and alcohol taxes, there is Frank Chaloupka to generate the desired figures. | |
− | + | :Chaloupka is a scientific core group member of RWJF’s Research Network on the Etiology of Tobacco Dependence (TERN). He also wrote Chapter 6 (“Economic Interventions”) for the 1998 S.G.’s report, ''The Context for Change: The Efficacy of Interventions for Smoking Prevention and Control,'' and “Effect of Tobacco Taxation” for the 1994 S.G.’s report. Chaloupka has received funding not only from RWJF, but also from the NCI (for the ASSIST program and other tobacco control projects), from NIDA, from SAMHA, from the CDC, from the ACS, and from the ALA. The Monitoring the Future Youth Survey (on tobacco, alcohol and drug use) is funded by RWJF. He lists himself as a consultant to the World Bank’s Human Development Department (1997– ), the American Cancer Society’s Tobacco Tax Policy Project (1996– ), the National Cancer Institute (1991– ), the RWJF (1993– ), Audits & Surveys (1993– ), the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health (1993– ) and the EPA, Indoor Air Division (1994–1995). | |
− | + | :With Kenneth Warner and others, he wrote “Criteria for Determining an Optimal Cigarette Tax,” published in ''Tobacco Control'' in 1995 (Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 380–386). He is also a Reviewer for and Associate Editor of ''Tobacco Control'', and he is a member of the Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco (coalition of ACS, ALA, AHA and others), which received a RWJF grant of $1 million in 1994. | |
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*'''Chapman, Simon''' | *'''Chapman, Simon''' | ||
− | :Australian-based sociologist and [http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2012/01/work-of-art.html anti-smoking zealot]. | + | :Australian-based sociologist and [http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2012/01/work-of-art.html anti-smoking zealot]. |
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*'''Cherner, Joe'''* | *'''Cherner, Joe'''* | ||
:Founder and head of SmokeFree Educational Services in NYC. Very active in attempting to push smoking bans in New York as policy chair for the Coalition for a Smoke-Free City. Cherner is one of the zealots who want smoking bans virtually everywhere. He has been largely unheard from since moving to France several years ago. | :Founder and head of SmokeFree Educational Services in NYC. Very active in attempting to push smoking bans in New York as policy chair for the Coalition for a Smoke-Free City. Cherner is one of the zealots who want smoking bans virtually everywhere. He has been largely unheard from since moving to France several years ago. | ||
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:Research director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada. He was involved in initiating work on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. | :Research director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada. He was involved in initiating work on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. | ||
*'''Connolly, Gregory''' | *'''Connolly, Gregory''' | ||
− | :Dentist. | + | :Dentist. Director, Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program (and the Health Protection Fund), Mass. Dept. of Public Health, in which capacity he oversees a current budget of about $58 million. Adviser to WHO’s Panel on Smoking and Health. Ex-officio member of the board of directors of the American Legacy Foundation. Chair of the RWJF funded 11th World Conference on Smoking & Health (Chicago, 2000). Associate Editor on “Politics of tobacco control” and reviewer for journal ''Tobacco Control''. Involved in tobacco control since ca. l985. As has RWJF, the “Health Protection Fund” has funded joint work by Michael Siegel and Lois Biener. He also sat on the Special Review Committee for NCI’s grant to Richard Daynard to assist in anti-tobacco litigation. |
− | :A member of the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee, established in 2010 after | + | :A member of the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee, established in 2010 after congress put tobacco under FDA control with an eye to making it “safer” or at least “less harmful.” Connolly wasn’t interested in making it less harmful but in making it disappear–a fact that was widely known. Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, president of the American Council on Science and Health, called him [http://www.acsh.org/factsfears/newsID.1288/news_detail.asp “the most extreme anti harm reduction person I’ve ever heard of”]. Connolly [http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-study-shows-that-in-contrast-to.html opposed electronic cigarettes ] but [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-brooks/fire-safe-cigarette-laws_b_519867.html promoted the chemically-laced “fire safe” kind] while dismissing their higher carcinogenic content. Connolly also [http://www.lifeclinic.com/fullpage.aspx?prid=617524&type=1 urged the FDA to ban menthol flavoring,] calling it “candy to make the toxins go down.” When the FDA ignored him, [http://gawker.com/5726562/menthols-future-is-looking-bright he quit “in disgust.”] |
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*'''Cummings, K. Michael'''* | *'''Cummings, K. Michael'''* | ||
− | :Sr. Research Scientist, Dept. of Cancer Control & Epidemiology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY. Also a Research Scientist with Health Research, Inc. of Buffalo. Listed in RWJF’s media guide for his “Assessment of the Effects of New York City’s Smoke-Free Restaurant Law | + | :Sr. Research Scientist, Dept. of Cancer Control & Epidemiology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY. Also a Research Scientist with Health Research, Inc. of Buffalo. Listed in RWJF’s media guide for his “Assessment of the Effects of New York City’s Smoke-Free Restaurant Law on Sales and Consumer Attitudes and Behavior,” which would study tax receipt data to determine the economic impact of the ban and would conduct a survey to gauge consumers’ and restaurant owners’ response to the law and determine steps needed for them to comply with the law. Results were expected in 1998. Cummings received $183,133 from RWJF for this “study.” |
− | :Cummings is heavily funded by RWJF and co-authored | + | :Cummings is heavily funded by RWJF and has even co-authored an article with RWJF’s C. Tracy Orleans, which was published in the Nov/Dec 1999 issue of the ''American Journal of Health Promotion''. The article focused heavily on cessation treatments and products and advocated more research on cessation as well as continued tobacco tax increases, counter advertising, and anti-tobacco “advocacy” (lobbying). Cummings has written the same message before (i.e. in his RWJF-funded “Environmental and Policy Influences on Tobacco Use,” published in the Winter 1998 issue of ''Tobacco Control'', for which he got $126,593 from RWJF). |
− | *'''Curry, Susan J | + | *'''Curry, Susan J'''* |
:Scientific Investigator, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, WA. The cooperative has received RWJF funding for studying tobacco cessation/control in HMOs. She is listed in the RWJF media guide for her project to examine the cost-effectiveness for HMOs to cover the cost of cessation programs (“Impact of Co-Payments on Use of Smoking Cessation Services in an HMO”). | :Scientific Investigator, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, WA. The cooperative has received RWJF funding for studying tobacco cessation/control in HMOs. She is listed in the RWJF media guide for her project to examine the cost-effectiveness for HMOs to cover the cost of cessation programs (“Impact of Co-Payments on Use of Smoking Cessation Services in an HMO”). | ||
*'''Davis, Ron'''* | *'''Davis, Ron'''* | ||
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:Daynard has also received a hundreds of thousands of dollars in RWJF grants and is listed in RWJF’s media guide for his RWJF-funded study, “Analysis of the Implications of the Americans With Disabilities Act for Environmental Tobacco Smoke Policy” (or how to use the ADA to force tobacco ban legislation and also conduct litigation). Associate editor for''Litigation'' and reviewer for ''Tobacco Control''. Sat on the RWJF-funded Koop/Kessler Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. Though he is not an engineer and has no credentials, he has managed to become a voting member of and advisor to the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). When ASHRAE, after years of resistance, finally agreed to an antismoking position in the 1990s, Daynard bragged, [http://no-smoking.org/june99/06-24-99-5.html "This culminates a 13-year effort on my part to get the 1989 language ... changed. I was a member of the ASHRAE committee that proposed the change."] Advisor to WHO. President GASP Massachusetts since l983. Board of Directors for Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco (STAT) and American Nonsmokers’ Rights (ANRF). | :Daynard has also received a hundreds of thousands of dollars in RWJF grants and is listed in RWJF’s media guide for his RWJF-funded study, “Analysis of the Implications of the Americans With Disabilities Act for Environmental Tobacco Smoke Policy” (or how to use the ADA to force tobacco ban legislation and also conduct litigation). Associate editor for''Litigation'' and reviewer for ''Tobacco Control''. Sat on the RWJF-funded Koop/Kessler Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. Though he is not an engineer and has no credentials, he has managed to become a voting member of and advisor to the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). When ASHRAE, after years of resistance, finally agreed to an antismoking position in the 1990s, Daynard bragged, [http://no-smoking.org/june99/06-24-99-5.html "This culminates a 13-year effort on my part to get the 1989 language ... changed. I was a member of the ASHRAE committee that proposed the change."] Advisor to WHO. President GASP Massachusetts since l983. Board of Directors for Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco (STAT) and American Nonsmokers’ Rights (ANRF). | ||
*'''DiFranza, Joseph'''* | *'''DiFranza, Joseph'''* | ||
− | : | + | :Prof. Dept. of family and community medicine, University of Massachusetts (Worcester, MA). Reviewer for ''Tobacco Control''. He also sat on the Special Review Committee, which approved the NCI grant to Richard Daynard to assist in anti-tobacco litigation. With funding from RWJF DiFranza investigated state compliance with a 1992 law (the Synar Regulation) cracking down on tobacco sales to youth. DiFranza found most states and even the Department of Health and Human Services in violation of the statutory requirements of the law (the results of his police work were published in his article in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine in October 1999). |
*'''Douglas, Cliff''' | *'''Douglas, Cliff''' | ||
:President, Tobacco Control Law & Policy Consulting, Evanston, IL. | :President, Tobacco Control Law & Policy Consulting, Evanston, IL. | ||
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:American Lung Association. Sat on the RWJF-funded “Koop/Kessler” Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. | :American Lung Association. Sat on the RWJF-funded “Koop/Kessler” Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. | ||
*'''Gilmore, Anna''' | *'''Gilmore, Anna''' | ||
− | :British anti-smoking campaigner, former board member of ASH and current director of the UK's Tobacco Control Research Group. Gilmore rose to prominence when she and her colleagues published a study in the [http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c2161 British Medical Journal] claiming that the English smoking ban reduced the heart attack rate by 2.4%. This was an attempt to shore up the flagging 'Helena Hypothesis' devised by Stanton Glantz, albeit with a much lower figure (Glantz had claimed 40%). As with previous efforts, routine hospital admissions data showed that the smoking ban had no effect whatsoever on the number of heart attacks; [http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/latest-smoking-banheart-attack-study-is.html the heart attack rate] fell at exactly the same rate after the ban as it had done in the years preceding the ban. It transpired that Gilmore had simply looked at the long-term downward trend in heart attack admissions and attributed half of the 2007/08 decline to the smoking ban. | + | :British anti-smoking campaigner, former board member of ASH and current director of the UK's Tobacco Control Research Group. Gilmore rose to prominence when she and her colleagues published a study in the [http://www.bmj.com/content/340/bmj.c2161 British Medical Journal] claiming that the English smoking ban reduced the heart attack rate by 2.4%. This was an attempt to shore up the flagging 'Helena Hypothesis' devised by Stanton Glantz, albeit with a much lower figure (Glantz had claimed 40%). As with previous efforts, routine hospital admissions data showed that the smoking ban had no effect whatsoever on the number of heart attacks; [http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.co.uk/2010/06/latest-smoking-banheart-attack-study-is.html the heart attack rate] fell at exactly the same rate after the ban as it had done in the years preceding the ban. It transpired that Gilmore had simply looked at the long-term downward trend in heart attack admissions and attributed half of the 2007/08 decline to the smoking ban. Gilmore continues to write prolifically about many aspects of tobacco control, but has also attempted to discuss economics (she believes that companies are [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/21/drinks-companies-liver-disease-mosquitoes-malaria "legally obliged to maximise shareholder returns"]) and alcohol. On the latter topic, she borrows liberally from tobacco control rhetoric, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/21/drinks-companies-liver-disease-mosquitoes-malaria referring] to the drinks industry as "mosquitoes" who spread disease. |
*'''Giovino, Gary''' | *'''Giovino, Gary''' | ||
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:He acknowledges that he and the AMA get funding from the pharmaceutical industry, specifically from makers of cessation products. Houston also sat on the RWJF-funded “Koop/Kessler” Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. | :He acknowledges that he and the AMA get funding from the pharmaceutical industry, specifically from makers of cessation products. Houston also sat on the RWJF-funded “Koop/Kessler” Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. | ||
*'''Hughes, John''' | *'''Hughes, John''' | ||
− | :Prof. of psychiatry, psychology and family practice, University of Vermont, Dept. of Psychiatry. Cessation (''Columbia Journalism Review'' media handbook says his specialty is “nicotine withdrawal, drug therapies and patches to help people quit smoking”). Member of and spokesman for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT). | + | :Prof. of psychiatry, psychology and family practice, University of Vermont, Dept. of Psychiatry. Cessation (''Columbia Journalism Review'' media handbook says his specialty is “nicotine withdrawal, drug therapies and patches to help people quit smoking”). Member of and spokesman for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT). |
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*'''Hurt, Richard''' | *'''Hurt, Richard''' | ||
:Director, Nicotine Dependence Center, and Nicotine Research Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Cessation. | :Director, Nicotine Dependence Center, and Nicotine Research Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Cessation. | ||
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:Senior Epidemiologist, PhD, MS, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Epidemiology and Population Health. | :Senior Epidemiologist, PhD, MS, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Epidemiology and Population Health. | ||
− | :Geoffrey C. Kabat has been highly critical of the | + | :Geoffrey C. Kabat has been highly critical of the ETS/secondhand smoke/passive smoking pseudo-science. [http://www.olivernorvell.com/EnstromKabat03.pdf A large study] on ETS which he performed together with James E. Enstrom reported results distasteful to the prohibitionists. Many orthodox Tobacco Control health professionals have [http://www.epi-perspectives.com/content/pdf/1742-5573-4-11.pdf heaped condemnation] on Enstrom and on Kabat in result. Kabat in turn has strenuously protested the close-minded, persecutorial unfairness of his colleagues toward himself and toward other epidemiologists who deviate from strict Tobacco Control dogma in terms of statistical interpretations. Nevertheless, and despite having expressed an opinion that smokers “aren’t evil”, Kabat continues to adhere to the strict orthodoxy of Tobacco Control in terms of society. He contends that, based on his own sense of aesthetics, Tobacco Control’s ''inherently and intentionally'' stigmatizing smoking bans are good. He sees no unfairness whatsoever in universally denying to smokers, as a matter of criminal law, any social ''milieux'' in which they could be accommodated, as and amongst friends, with dignity and respect. Tobacco Control’s edict that its strict orthodoxy must be imposed upon everyone, everywhere, without exception, does not strike Doctor Kabat as being close-minded when it comes to the matter of socially governing law; or anyway, when it comes to law which persecutes smokers, and does not persecute non-smokers such as Geoffrey Kabat or his personal circle of friends. [http://www.olivernorvell.com/KabatSmokingBans.pdf As he has written on the subject]: “Whatever one thinks about the lethality of environmental tobacco smoke, it appears to me to be an enormous step in the direction of a civilized society to not have to stand on line in a poorly-ventilated post office behind someone puffing on a cigarette or cigar. Nevertheless, I believe it was a mistake for authorities to feel they had to justify smoking restrictions based on the flimsy science linking ETS to fatal diseases. ... But this approach would not have had the legal clout that stating ETS causes lung cancer has. ... I completely agree with Professor [Luiz Antonio de] Castro-Santos that smokers, who are now a beleaguered minority, should not be stigmatized. ... But, by the same token, I am not inclined to bemoan the loss of this particular practice – as much as it contributed to the ''ambience'' of Paris cafés.” |
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*'''Kauffman, Nancy, RN'''* | *'''Kauffman, Nancy, RN'''* | ||
:Vice-President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Represented the RWJF on the federal Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health beginning in 1995. Also assisted with SCARCnet. | :Vice-President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Represented the RWJF on the federal Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health beginning in 1995. Also assisted with SCARCnet. | ||
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*'''Pope, Gregory'''* | *'''Pope, Gregory'''* | ||
:Center for Health Economics Research, Inc., Waltham, MA. Listed in RWJF media guide for “Study of the Adoption and Economic Effects of Smoke-free Restaurant Ordinances in Massachusetts.” Results were expected in early 1997. | :Center for Health Economics Research, Inc., Waltham, MA. Listed in RWJF media guide for “Study of the Adoption and Economic Effects of Smoke-free Restaurant Ordinances in Massachusetts.” Results were expected in early 1997. | ||
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*'''Rabin, Robert'''* | *'''Rabin, Robert'''* | ||
:Professor of law at Stanford University Law School. Served as Senior Consultant for RWJF’s “Tobacco and substance abuse policy program.” | :Professor of law at Stanford University Law School. Served as Senior Consultant for RWJF’s “Tobacco and substance abuse policy program.” | ||
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:Founder and Director of Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA. A scientific editor for the l989 Surgeon General’s report on tobacco, for which Kenneth Warner was the Chief Scientific Editor. Listed in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation media guide for RWJF grant on “Does Active Enforcement of Tobacco Sales Laws Reduce Adolescents’ Smoking?” Has done a number of studies funded by RWJF, including: “Impediments to the enforcement of youth access laws” (with Joseph DiFranza, ''Tobacco Control'', 1999 Summer;8(2):152–155). Also does studies and writes articles such as the American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute-funded “The use of nicotine-replacement therapy by hospitalized smokers” (Rigotti, Arnsten J., McKool K., Wood-Reid K., et al, ''American Journal of Preventive Medicine'', Nov 1999; 17(4),255–259) supporting use of pharmaceutical cessation products. Was a member of a research team at the Institute for the Study of Smoking, Behavior and Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government for five years in the 80s until the Institute closed in 1990. With regard to underage smoking: “Since prevention isn’t working, we need to focus on cessation,” (“The Rehooked Generation: How Do We Help Them Stop?” by David Ansley, onhealth.com, November 19, 1998). An executive officer of SRNT. | :Founder and Director of Tobacco Research and Treatment Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA. A scientific editor for the l989 Surgeon General’s report on tobacco, for which Kenneth Warner was the Chief Scientific Editor. Listed in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation media guide for RWJF grant on “Does Active Enforcement of Tobacco Sales Laws Reduce Adolescents’ Smoking?” Has done a number of studies funded by RWJF, including: “Impediments to the enforcement of youth access laws” (with Joseph DiFranza, ''Tobacco Control'', 1999 Summer;8(2):152–155). Also does studies and writes articles such as the American Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute-funded “The use of nicotine-replacement therapy by hospitalized smokers” (Rigotti, Arnsten J., McKool K., Wood-Reid K., et al, ''American Journal of Preventive Medicine'', Nov 1999; 17(4),255–259) supporting use of pharmaceutical cessation products. Was a member of a research team at the Institute for the Study of Smoking, Behavior and Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government for five years in the 80s until the Institute closed in 1990. With regard to underage smoking: “Since prevention isn’t working, we need to focus on cessation,” (“The Rehooked Generation: How Do We Help Them Stop?” by David Ansley, onhealth.com, November 19, 1998). An executive officer of SRNT. | ||
*'''Samet, Jonathan''' | *'''Samet, Jonathan''' | ||
− | :Until 2009 chairman of Dept. of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Since then Professor and Chair for the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California and Director, USC Institute for Global Health. | + | :Until 2009 chairman of Dept. of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Since then Professor and Chair for the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California and Director, USC Institute for Global Health. Funded by SmithKline Beecham in carrying out China’s Third National Survey on Smoking, which was presented at the 10th World Conference on Smoking and Health at Beijing in August 1997. SmithKline Beecham, at that time the world’s leading marketer of smoking cessation products and programs, also funded the Johns Hopkins Institute for Global Tobacco Control in the School of Public Health in 1998. |
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:[http://magazine.jhsph.edu/2006/Fall/news_briefs/secondhand_smoke/?subsection_id=50 Jonathan Samet] has played a prominent role in reviews of the epidemiologic evidence on passive smoking for over 25 years. He was consulting editor for the Surgeon General 1986 report about passive smoking, and played a major role in the epidemiologic analysis for the 1992 EPA-report. Samet was chairman of the group behind the IARC 2003 Monograph 83 of smoking & passive smoking. He was also the senior scientific editor of the Surgeon General's 2004 and 2006 reports and thus responsible for the omission of the [http://www.bmj.com/content/326/7398/1057 Enstrom & Kabat 2003 BMJ-study] from the SG 2006-report. | :[http://magazine.jhsph.edu/2006/Fall/news_briefs/secondhand_smoke/?subsection_id=50 Jonathan Samet] has played a prominent role in reviews of the epidemiologic evidence on passive smoking for over 25 years. He was consulting editor for the Surgeon General 1986 report about passive smoking, and played a major role in the epidemiologic analysis for the 1992 EPA-report. Samet was chairman of the group behind the IARC 2003 Monograph 83 of smoking & passive smoking. He was also the senior scientific editor of the Surgeon General's 2004 and 2006 reports and thus responsible for the omission of the [http://www.bmj.com/content/326/7398/1057 Enstrom & Kabat 2003 BMJ-study] from the SG 2006-report. | ||
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:Jonathan Samet is one of the leaders of the inner circle of TC in [http://www.who.int/tobacco/wntd/2007/awards/en/index2.html the WHO], working for Tobacco Control globally. He is the one James Enstrom compares to the Soviet scientist Trofim Lysenko in his 2007 defense against the ''ad hominem'' attacks on Enstrom, launched by the Tobacco Control Industry after the publication of the BMJ-study in 2003: [http://www.epi-perspectives.com/content/4/1/11 Defending legitimate epidemiologic research: combating Lysenko pseudoscience] | :Jonathan Samet is one of the leaders of the inner circle of TC in [http://www.who.int/tobacco/wntd/2007/awards/en/index2.html the WHO], working for Tobacco Control globally. He is the one James Enstrom compares to the Soviet scientist Trofim Lysenko in his 2007 defense against the ''ad hominem'' attacks on Enstrom, launched by the Tobacco Control Industry after the publication of the BMJ-study in 2003: [http://www.epi-perspectives.com/content/4/1/11 Defending legitimate epidemiologic research: combating Lysenko pseudoscience] | ||
− | :Jonathan Samet has some serious financial conflicts of interests with the big pharmaceutical players in the anti-smoking industry: While he is chairman of the FDA's Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee and sits on several other advisory boards for the US-government, he is at the same time chairing the Nicorette-owners in [http://www.healthandsocietyscholars.org/1492/1562/108946 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health & Society Scholars] program, which is ''designed to build the nation’s capacity for research, leadership and policy change to address the multiple determinants of population health.'' | + | :Jonathan Samet has some serious financial conflicts of interests with the big pharmaceutical players in the anti-smoking industry: While he is chairman of the FDA's Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee and sits on several other advisory boards for the US-government, he is at the same time chairing the Nicorette-owners in [http://www.healthandsocietyscholars.org/1492/1562/108946 The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health & Society Scholars] program, which is ''designed to build the nation’s capacity for research, leadership and policy change to address the multiple determinants of population health.'' Jonathan Samet has also received grants from multinationals GlaxoSmithKline & Pfizer and other anti-smoking foundations: |
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:''Dr. Samet has received grant support from GlaxoSmithKline, the American Legacy Foundation, Flight Attend Medical Research Institute (FAMRI), and Atlantic Philanthropies.'' - [http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/114/14/1450.full.pdf Smoking Bans Prevent Heart Attacks] | :''Dr. Samet has received grant support from GlaxoSmithKline, the American Legacy Foundation, Flight Attend Medical Research Institute (FAMRI), and Atlantic Philanthropies.'' - [http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/114/14/1450.full.pdf Smoking Bans Prevent Heart Attacks] | ||
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:It should be noted however that many in the Free Choice community are still quite critical of Siegel's stance in a number of areas. Some feel, and have argued strongly, that Siegel's criticisms of some anti-smoker policies may simply represent a tactical view designed to support "effective" anti-smoking policies rather than representing any real philosophical criticism of anti-smoking goals. | :It should be noted however that many in the Free Choice community are still quite critical of Siegel's stance in a number of areas. Some feel, and have argued strongly, that Siegel's criticisms of some anti-smoker policies may simply represent a tactical view designed to support "effective" anti-smoking policies rather than representing any real philosophical criticism of anti-smoking goals. | ||
:Siegel is correct that a popular backlash against Tobacco Control has long been forming and is rapidly growing. His prescription for tactical adjustment of TC policies (which some have compared to Mikhail Gorbachev's 1980s policy of attempting preservation of Communism in the USSR through institution of moderate reform) is likely to fail to preserve the core of more basic Tobacco Control objectives from ultimate destruction by the excesses of the extremists. Those he has become critical of generally seek total denormalization and prohibition despite any human costs involved. | :Siegel is correct that a popular backlash against Tobacco Control has long been forming and is rapidly growing. His prescription for tactical adjustment of TC policies (which some have compared to Mikhail Gorbachev's 1980s policy of attempting preservation of Communism in the USSR through institution of moderate reform) is likely to fail to preserve the core of more basic Tobacco Control objectives from ultimate destruction by the excesses of the extremists. Those he has become critical of generally seek total denormalization and prohibition despite any human costs involved. | ||
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*'''Sitzer, Maxine''' | *'''Sitzer, Maxine''' | ||
:Prof. Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine. Committee Chair, Society of Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (Scientific Liaison: Public Policy Council). | :Prof. Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine. Committee Chair, Society of Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (Scientific Liaison: Public Policy Council). |