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TOBACCO INDUSTRY EXPLANATORY

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Marvin Kristein    

— Anti-smoking activist at the American Health Foundation (which was partly dependent on tobacco industry research funding). —  


Some key documents

1984 Oct 2: Ogilvy & Mather PR's Monthly report to Peter Sparber at the Tobacco Institute.

  • Public Smoking
    • Identified possible minority consultant, Robert Ethridge, to be used with William Weis. [They mean 'against' William Weis , who is a Seattle professor who said smoking worker's cost their employers $4,600 pa]
    • Acted as liaison between client and Eva Baker; received a preliminary proposal late in the month.
    • Reviewed some of Marvin Kristein's work and presented recommendations on how we might proceed. [Kristein was an anti-smoking scientist at the AHF]
  • Labor/Excises
  • Other Activites


1989: Tobacco Institute: Susan Stuntz "The Plan" for countering public-smoking ban hearings. This is her list of anti-smoking activists that the tobacco industry must expect to encounter and counter:

  • Surgeon General C. Everett Koop
  • Lawrence Garfinkel (American Cancer Society)
  • Representatives from the Heart and Lung Associations
  • John Banzhaf (ASH)
  • James Repace
  • David Burns, Jonathan Samet, and other authors of the Surgeon General's 1986 report
  • Bob Rosner, William Weis, Tim Lowenberg of Seattle University's Smoking Policy institute
  • Marvin Kristein, American Health Foundation, on the economics of smoking restrictions
  • Representatives of state and local governments that have restricted smoking.
  • William Alli, American Federation of Government Employees, and other individual workers who are members of unions
  • Representatives from the NAS passive smoking and cabin air quality committees
  • Aaron Lichtman, president of Citizens Against Tobacco Smoke (CATS), dedicated to banning smoking on airlines
  • Representatives from some flight attendants, unions, intent on maintaining the two-hour ban

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