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Some key documents

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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