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Los Angeles public interest advocate

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    Mr. Jack M. Nicholl has been involved in political campaigns end public interest advocacy for nearly 30 years. He has been an advocate in Washington, D.C., served in city government in Cleveland, and managed statewide political campaigns and organizations in California, Arizona, and Ohio.

    In 1988, Mr. Nicholl managed a successful statewide campaign to increase the tobacco tax in California by 25 cents. In 1994, he directed a suocessful statewide tobacco tax campaign in Arizona, raising the tax by 40 cxnts. Also in 1994, he managed the campaign that crushed the tobacco industry initiative in California, Proposition 188. In every campaign, Mr. Nicholl has organized a coalition effort bringing together voluntary health agencies, physicians, hospital groups, and others in historic showdowns with the tobacco industry.

    Mr. Nicholl is preparing a manual for the American Cancer Society, Inc on how to manage tobacco tax initiatives and legislative campaigns.

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