Lorillard
Corporate Contacts Re Workplace Smoking
Fields
- Author
- Osborne, L.
- Ross, J.
- Stuntz, S.
- Ross, J.
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- PUBLIC RELATIONS FILE ROOM
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- 85544385/85544435
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- Named Person
- Zorb, W.I.
- Adler, S.
- Agnello, P.A.
- Alter, S.
- Amentt, M.
- Bacon, M.R.
- Barbieri, C.G.
- Blades, L.S. III
- Boothe, S.C.
- Brady, K.
- Budzinskin, H.
- Burch, R.
- Cannon, S.
- Carruthers, S.
- Carter, T.
- Clemans, D.B.
- Coale, J.
- Conlon, C.M.
- Cordella
- Cosse, C.R. III
- Daly, A.
- Daly, S.
- Desevo, M.
- Dillon, M.M.
- Ehwa, M.
- Elias, R.
- Engel, R.L.
- Falk, J.
- Feldman, F.G.
- Fjelstad, W.A.
- Flatow, B.C.
- Foote, P.
- Forte, P., J.R.
- Fortney, L.
- Foster, B.
- Francis, M.
- Fraser, R.
- Frisco, L.
- Fuller, J.
- Hansen, L.
- Harris, W.
- Harrow, D.F.
- Heckman, R.
- Hoar, R.
- Hooker, R.W.
- Horberg, D.
- Jacobson, K.
- Jones, C.R.
- Kildoo, D.
- Kingdom, C.E.
- Kluthe, R.C.
- Korzeniowski, G.
- Krabill, J.
- Kurtz, L.
- Lawrence, K.
- Littleton, D.
- Lowes, S.
- Lubeck, P.
- Lupien, R.
- Manderey, M.
- Maxcy, J.
- Mcdonald, M.
- Mcdonough, J.
- Mcelfresh, C.
- Mchale, J.
- Mcvay, W.P.
- Mendelson, J.
- Mendenhall, J.
- Merryman, W.
- Metzler, D.
- Milaway, R.
- Mitchell, W.P.
- Montville, P.
- Moon, J.
- Morris, D.W.
- Morton, J.
- Mulfeld, L.
- Nanasi, Y.
- Nelson, C.H.
- Newcomb, B.
- Nordberg, R.
- Nuzzo, N.
- Olney, B.
- Olsen, C.
- Olson, R.
- Parkes, M.
- Peterson, D.W.
- Pierce, R.F.
- Pinard, R.
- Poundstone, J.
- Psket, K.
- Quay, L.
- Ramer, M.
- Reed, R.
- Ricke, M.
- Riddick, D.
- Riley, T.
- Ritter, E.F.
- Rodriques, P.
- Rosner, R.
- Rosser, R.
- Royden, M.
- Russo, V.J.
- Sanchez, F.G.
- Scatamacchia, M.
- Seaberg, A.W.
- Shapiro, M.
- Smith, K.
- Spiegelberg, K.G.
- Stanton, B.
- Staples, S.
- Studley, R.K.
- Sweeney, L.
- Swirsky, S.
- Tedder, D.
- Thomas, G.
- Thomas, J.
- Thomas, J.C.
- Toffon, A.
- Upton, M.D.
- Wall, P.
- Walsh, J.
- Weigum, J.
- Wendolowski, J.
- Werling, L.R.
- Wholly, J.
- Widmer, R.
- Wiley, B.
- Williams, R.
- Winkler, R.
- Wolber, J.
- Wroth, C.
- Youngman, E.
- Adler, S.
- Named Organization
- Afl Cio
- American Assn of Affir
- American Express
- American Lung Assn
- American Petroleum in
- American Re Insurance
- Apwu Local
- Archdiocese of Newark
- Arens Controls
- Assn of American Railr
- Associated Industries
- Atlanta Chamber of Com
- at+T
- Ball State Univ
- Basicfour
- Bbc Brown Boveri
- Blue Cross + Blue Shie
- Bowers
- Bristol Press
- Business + Industry As
- Bw, Brown & Williamson
- Carolina Telephone +
- Chadbourne Parke
- Chamber Executive
- Champion Intl
- Charlotte Chamber of
- Chase Manhattan Bank
- Chevy Chase Savings +
- Clemans Insurance
- Commission on Smoking
- Communications Worker
- Comsis
- Consumer Reports
- Control Data
- Cuna Mutual Insurance
- C+P Telephone
- Decoto Aircraft
- Denver Public Service
- Dept of Commerce
- Detroit Free Press
- Eg+G Idaho
- Emergency Services
- Emil H Nelson
- Epa, Environmental Protection Agency
- Ets
- Exxon Intl
- Fallon Community Healt
- Fl Chamber
- Gelco
- General Mills
- General Motors
- Gh Bass + Company
- Grandmet Usa
- Heath
- Honewell Information S
- Horizon Bank
- Ia City Fire Dept
- Itt Communications Ser
- Jm Huber
- Jones Day
- Kalish Rice
- Krem Tv
- Lawrence Livermore Nat
- La Assn of Business +
- Lexington County Dept
- Libbey Ownes
- Lionville Mfg
- Long Island Railroad
- Machinists Union Local
- Mcclelland Tobacco
- Metroplex
- Me Chamber of Commerce
- Me Today
- Mi State Chamber of Co
- Mn Dept of Health
- Mn House of Representa
- Monmouth County Plann
- Mountain Bell
- Natl Restaurant Assn
- Natl Wildlife Federat
- Newmech
- New England Bell
- Nj Bell
- Nj Business + Industry
- Nj Dept of Health
- Northwest Orient Airli
- Noville
- Ny Chamber of Commerce
- Ny City Chamber of Com
- Office of Campaign Fi
- Office + Professional
- Pacific Northwest Bell
- Patuxent Publishing
- Pa Dept of Labor + in
- Pitney Bowes
- PM, Philip Morris
- Procter Gamble
- Public Service Commis
- RJR, R.J.Reynolds
- Rko General
- R+J Medical Supply
- Save the Children
- Sencorp
- Seyfarth Shaw
- Shopsmith
- Soo Line Railroad
- Spot Image
- Stack Gallager
- Stevens Inst of Techn
- Stride Rite
- Tan, Tobacco Action Network
- Teachers Insurance + A
- Timeout Family Amusem
- TI, Tobacco Inst
- Trion
- United Airlines
- Usda, U.S. Dept of Agriculture
- US Chamber of Commerce
- US Tobacco
- Village of Woodridge
- Vt State Chamber of Co
- Waldman Graphics
- Wa Assn of Business
- Wa Board of Trade
- Wender Murase
- Western Southern Life
- Wheler
- White Case
- Wilson George Meyer
- American Assn of Affir
- Recipient
- Sparber, P.
- Date Loaded
- 05 Jun 1998
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Donna Horberg
Chicag,o, IL
Fieldstaff Contact: Notified of request and will
assist with follow up if necessary.
Horberg contacted us via the business reply card
enclosed in all workplace kits. Because we do not have a
business address, we wrote her to contact us for further
assistance. We will follow up if possible.
Camille Olsen
Chicago, IL
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and will assist
with follow up if necessary.
Olsen contacted us via the business reply card. Because
we do not have a business address, we requested via
correspondence for her to contact us for further
assistance. We will follow up~if possible.
Scott Staples
Village of Woodridge
Woodridge, IL
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and assisting
with follow up.
A dispatcher with the Village of Woodrid'~ge contactedus
concerning a restrictive policy that prohibited her from
smoking in the workplace. in~ response, we corresponded
with the Village administrator offering our assistance
in developing a more reasonable policy. We will follow
up.
Betty Newcomb
EEO Director
Ball State University
Muncie, IN
Field Staff Contact: Notified of meeting and will be
involved if follow up is necessary.
Newcomb, a past president of the American Association of
Affirmative Action, met with us during the AAAA annual
meeting in Atlanta. Although~she has successfully dealt
with smoking-related workplace problems, we forwarded
samples of our materials to her for future reference.
Richard K. Studley
Michigan State Chamber of Commerce
Lansing, MI
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Field Staff Contact: Scheduled meeting and will assist
with follow up.
We met with Studley to discuss preparing a workplace
smoking brochure offering guidelines on developing
reasonable workplace smoking solutions for the chamber's
17,000 members. Studley enthusiastically responded and
we have agreed to provide an initial draft.
The Michigan Chamber has earnestly supported our efforts
to oppose state and local smoking, restrictions. Studley
also agreedto put us in touch~with member comoanies
that need assistance. We are continuing to follow up.
Barbara Stanton
Detroit Free Press
Detroit, MI
Field Staff Contact: Notifed of request and will assist
with follow up if necessary.
Stanton was appointed co-chair of a workplace smoking
committee charged with:developing a policy. We provided
Stanton with our workplace smoking kit and samples of
reasonable policies. We may be asked to make a
presentation to the committee once they get underway.
We will follow up.
Edward Youngman
Heath Company
St. Joseph, MI
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and will
assist with follow up if necessary.
Heath Company is not considering~a policy but has
experienced some complaints from nonsmokers. Having
received the workplace kit, Youngman requested
additional information but declined any immediate
assistance. Employees are unionized. We will follow
up.
Bobby Fraser
Battle Creek, MI
FieldStaff Contact: Notified of contact and will
follow up.
Fraser contactedus to offer assistance in opposing
state and local smoking restrictions. Field staff was
notified to enroll Fraser as a; TAN activist. We also
provided Fraser with our workplace smoking, kit.
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Kim Lawrence
Jones Day Reavis & Pogue
Cleveland~, OR
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and will
assist with follow up if necessary.
Lawrence requested several of our workplace smoking kits
and model policies to provide clients that are faci~ng
the issue. In addition, we offered further assistance
in assisting their clients. We will follow up.
Clifford McElfresh
Columbus, OH
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request.
Philip Morris forwarded McElfreshl's request for
materials on workplace smoking iniconjunction with a
research project. We provided ouir workplace smoking,
kit.
Lauren R. Werling
Columbus, OR
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and will
assist with follow up if necessary.
Brown & Williamson referredWerling's request to us.
Werling expressed her concern with restrictive workplace
smoking policies andreq,uested materials she couldshare
with her employer. We will follow up.
Beckey Wiley
Shopsmith Incorporated
Dayton, OH
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and will
assist with follow up if necessary.
Wiley contacted us to express her concern over a
restrictive workplace smoking policy that Shopsmith will
be phasing in over the next two years. Wiley requested
our materials to share with her employer. We also
offered to contact Shopsmith and offer our assistance in
developing a reasonable policy. We will follow up.
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Region IV
(Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, N.Dakota,
S.Dakota, Wisconsinl
Richard Olson
Machinists Union Local
Algona, IA
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and will
assist with follow up if necessary.
Olson requested our assistance in preparing for an
arbitration case challenging an employer's workplace
smoking policy. We provided Olson with~our workplace
smoking kit focusing on union a:spects.
in a follow up, Olson~requested copies of several legal
cases and stated that his case was scheduled for
consideration in April. We have offered our assistance
and will follow up.
C. Robert Jones
Control Data Corp.
Bloomington, MN
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and will
assist with~follow up if necessary.
In response to several news articles concerning the
implementation of Control Data's smoking policy we
corresponded with Jones advocating a more reasonable
approach to the workplace smoking issue. We offered our
assistance in developing a reasonable policy. We will
follow up if necessary.
Robert Reed
Northwest Orient Airlines
Minneapolis, MN
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and will
assist with follow up if necessary.
Another Minnesota corporate contact referred Reed to us.
Northwest Orient is moving to anew and~larger office
facility and Reed is looking at revising the corporate
smoking policy. We provided~ Reed with our workplace
smoking kit and offered our assistance. We will follow
up.
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Minnesota Department of Health
Minneapolis, MN
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and will
assist with follow up~if necessary.
At the Department's request, we provided our workplace
smoking kit. We will follow up if necessary.
Kathy Psket
Milwaukee, WI
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and will
assist with follow up if necessary.
Lorillard forwarded Psket's request for assistance.
Psket is a union representative and is challenging her
employer's restrictive workplace smoking policy. We
provided Psket with our workplace smoking kit focusing
on union asoects and offered our assistance. We will
follow up. ~
Region V
(Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon,
Washington)
Frank G. Sanchez
EG&G Idaho Inc.
Idaho Falls, ID
Field~staff contact: Copied on correspond~ence.
Sanchez is human resources director of this nuclear
power facility. He also is a member of the board of
directors of the American Association of Affirmative
Action. We met with him during the AAAA annuall meeting,
in Atlanta, and d'iscussed~his methods of dealing with
smoking problems in the workplace. He is supportive of
our position, and asked for materials that would help
him~with his problems. We mailed appropriate materials
an.ad will continue to stay in touch with him.
Kathleen G. Spiegelberg
United States Department of Agriculture
Orofino, ID
Field Staff Contact: Notified of Request and will
assist with follow up if necessary.
Spiegelberg's reauest for assistance came from U.S.
Tobacco. Spiegelberg has been aopointed to aworknlace
smoking committee. we provided our workplace smoking
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materials and offered our assistance. We will follow
if necessary.
Jan Mendenhall
Decoto Aircraft Inc.
Yakima, WA
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Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and will
assist with follow uplif necessary.
Mendenhall attended one of the Washington Association of
Business workplace smoking seminars last fall and
requested some sample workplace smoking policies. We
provided Mendenhall withithese and other materi!als that
have become available since the seminar. We wi~ll follow
up.
Region VI
(Delaware, D.C., Georgia, Maryland, N. Carolina,
S.Carolina, Virginia, W. Virginia)
Meg Amentt
Blue Cross & Blue Shield
Wilmington, DE
Field Staff Contact: Notified of contact and will
assist with follow up if necessary.
Amentt was referred to us by one of our public relations
counsel. Amentt alerted them to Blue Cross & Blue
Shield's proposed workplace smoking ban. We provided
Amentt with our workplace smoking kit and offered to
provide further assistance. We will follow up.
Billy P. Mitchell
Chamber of Commerce of The United States
Washington, DC
Field Staff Contact: Notified of contact.
We met with Mitchelil in his capacity as liaison with
state chamber of commerce executives. Mitchell agreed
to place us in contact with specific state chamber of
commerce executives. Mitchell also provided some useful
insights concerning,the Chamber Executive article on
smoking in the workplace and i eas for a response. We
will con~tinue tolwork with Mitchell.
Washington Board of Trade
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Workplace Smoking Seminar -- 3/20/86 U!
Washington, D.C. V1
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Field~Staff Contact: Input requested in decision to
participate. Field staff and lobbyist attended~portions
of the seminar.
Approximately 50 personnel professionals attended this
seminar to assist companies i~n developing workplace
smoking policies. In addition to our presentation, the
seminar provided attendees with balancedlegal
information and the perspective of C & P Telephone
company in developing their policy. Despite the
participation of Robert Rosner of Seattle, WA, the
primary theme of the program was to develop reasonable
policies.
The Washington Board of Trade has consistently opposed
the D.C. workplace smoking legislation and this was
their effort to demonstrate to the council that
businesses can handle the issue on their own. Field
staff is continuing to follow up with the Board and we
have mailed 22 (see attached list) follow up letters to
represented compani~es. We will follow up witie each.
Roger Williams
Office of Campaign Financing
Washington, D.C.
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and will
assist with follow up if necessary.
Williams contacted us concerning his employer's proposal
to ban smoking in his 42-employee office. The director
of the agency threatened suspension if rule is violated.
We provided Williams with materials but he declined all
offers of assistance. We will follow up if necessary.
Jean Moon
Patuxent Publishing Corporation
Columbia, MD
Field Staff Contact: Notified of contact and will
assist with follow up if necessary.
An employee alerted us to Patuxent's workplace smoking
ban. We correspondedwith the general manager and
offered our assistance indeveloping a policy that
accommodates smokers and nonsmokers. We will follow up
if necessary.
Robert Pinard
Chevy Chase Savings & Loan
Chevy Chase, MD
Field Staff Contact: Notified of contact and will
assist withifollow up if necessary.
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Pinardalertedus to his employer's policy that
prohibits smoking in some work areas. Pinard requested
our materials to share with his employer. We will
follow up if necessary.
Ronald Rosser
Bethesda, MD
Field Staff Contact: Notifiedof contact andwill
assist with follow up if necessary.
R.J. Reynolds referred this request for assistance to
us. Rosser is a firefighter with the Bethesda, MD fire
department. The department has initiated a smoking
policy that prohibits smoking except in the restroom.
We have provided Rosser with our materials andoffered
our assistance. We may be asked to follow up.
Linda Fortney
Gibsonville, NC
FieldStaff Contact: Notified of request and will
assist with follow up if necessary.
Fortney, a librarian, calledfor advice concerning her
employer's workplace smoking policy. We provided
Fortney with our workplace smoking kit and samples of
reasonable policies to share with her employer. We will
follow up if necessary.
Donald F. Harrow
The Charlotte Chamber of Commerce
Charlotte, NC
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request.
In response to an American Lung Association effort to
encourage Charlotte area employers to develop
restrictive workplace smoking policies we met with
Harrow to discuss how we can assist employers in taking
a more reasonable approach to the issue. Harrow
concurred with our approach and agreed to refer to us
companies experiencing problems.
The chamber is currently considering the possibility of
working with us on developing a chamber brochure
advocating this approach. We are following up.
Dewey Tedder
Brown & Williamson
Greensboro, NC
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and will
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assist with follow up if necessary.
Tedder alerted us to their travel agent's workplace
smoking ban. Tedder requested that we draft a letter
for him to send to:the company president expressing his
concern with the policy. We submitted the draft letter
to Tedder along with a workplace smoking kit to include.
We will follow up and may be asked to provide further
assistance.
Trion Corporation
Sanford, NC
Field Staff Contact: Notified~of request to participate
and~wiLl assist with follow up if necessary.
Trion, a manufacturer of air cleaning equipment,
requested a 45 minute presentationon workplace smoking
at the annual meeting of their sales representatives in
Raleigh. Approximately 125 individuals attended the
meeting.
Our presentation was enthusiastically received and~the
attendees expressed an eager willingness in working with
us onencouraging a reasonable approach to the issue.
We will follow up with all attendees.
Mark R. Bacon
National Wildlife Federation
Vienna, VA
Field Staff Contact: Notified of request and will
assist with~follow up if necessary.
Bacon alerted us to the Federation's new wellness
program that includes a smoking policy that will ban
workplace smoking effective 01/01/87. Inresponse, we
corresponded~with the Federation's executive director
and offered our assistance in coming up with a more
reasonable policy. We may be asked to provide further
assistance.
Don Rildoo
United Airlines
McLean, VA
Field Staff Contact: Notified of contact and will
assist with follow up if necessary.
In response to crowded working conditions and poor
ventil:ation, this reservations division has temporarily
restricted~smoking in work areas. we were alerted to
the situation by an employee and have offered our
assistance in working out a reasonable soiut-ion~. w e
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will follow up if necessary.
Joe Morton
Emerg,ency Services
Norfolk, VA
Field Staff Contact: Notified of contact and assisting
with follow up~.
Morton, a dispatcher for Norfolk's emergency services,
alerted u~s to the division's work station smoking ban.
The intensity of the job prevents break opportunities.
It appears that this is the only segment of the city
government where this policy applies.
We have conta€ted~the coordinator of emergency services
and offered our assistance in developing a more
reasonable policy. Field staff is also exploring
political options in reducing the severity of the
policy. We are continuing to follow up.
Michael D. Upton
Communications'Workers of America
Local 2202
Virginia Beach, VA
Field Staff Contact: Notified of contact and may be
asked to assist with follow up.
In response to a news article where Upton was quoted~on
C & P Telephone Company's recently announced smoking,
policy, we provided our information focusing on union
aspects of the issue and offered our assistance.
In addition, we have responded~to a number of C & P
employees who have expressed their concern with the
policy. In all cases, in additiomto offering our own
assistance, we have encouraged~these individuals to
express their concern with their union~representative.
We are continuing to follow up with th~e union on the
local, state and national level.
Ronald Winkler
Spot Image Corporation
Reston, VA
Field~Staff Contact: Notified of request and may assist
with follow uo~.
As the corporation's new director of personnel, Winkler
has been charged wi th developing recommendations on the
workplace smoking issue. qe provid'ed Winkler with~our
workplace smoking kit and may provide further assistance
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