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3after Fires Califano
Abstract
Califano Jr., champion of the antismokers, no longer has a major forum from which to make known his views. He was fired as Secretary of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on July 19.
Fields
- Named Organization
- AFL-CIO (American Federation of Labor/Congress of Industrial Organiza)Labor Union
- Agency for International Development
- American Cancer Society
- American Lung Association
Voluntary health organization concerned with fighting lung disease, promoting lung health and advocating clean air, indoors and out.- Anti-Cigarette League
- ASH (Action on Smoking and Health)
Action on Smoking and Health- Basic Research
- CBS (Columbia Broadcasting System)
- Citizens for Clean Air in Publicly Used Buildings
- Civil Aeronautics Board (Ruled on smoking in U.S. airplanes)
- Department of Commerce (DOC)
- *Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) (use United States Departmen (use @hew_dept)
- DuPont
- Federal Trade Commission (Enforcement agency for laws against deceptive advertising)
Enforces laws against false and deceptive advertising, including ads for tobacco products. Ensures proper display of health warnings in ads and on tobacco products;collects and reports to Congress information concerning cigarette and smokeless tobacco advertising, sales expenditures, and the tar, nicotine, and carbon monoxide content of cigarettes.- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
- George Washington University
- Health Research Group (An anti-smoking group)
An anti-smoking group- Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- New York Times
- Nonsmokers Rights (California anti-smoking organization created by Stanton Glan)
- Office on Smoking and Health
Responsible for creating reports on the health effects of smoking. Created by the Public Health Service.- Philip Morris & Co. Ltd. (Cigarette manufacturer, incorporated in U.S. in 1902)
Philip Morris & Co. Ltd.., was incorporated in New York in April of 1902; half the shares were held by the parent company in London, and the balance by its U.S. distributor and his American associate. Its overall sales in 1903, its first full year of U.S. operation, were a modest seven million cigarettes. Among the brand offered, besides Philip Morris, were Blues, Cambridge, Derby, and a ladies favorite name for the London street where the home companies factory was located - Marlborough.- Philip Morris Research Center (Did 1983 study which concluded that nicotine is addictive)
Philip Morris Research Center did a 1983 study which concluded that nicotine is addictive, per New York Times (Reuters 4/5/94).- Public Citizen ("PC") (Nonprofit consumer advocate organization founded by Ralph Na)
Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocate-action organization founded in 1971 by Ralph Nader.- R.J. Reynolds Corporation (second tier subsidiary of RJR Industries)
- Senate
- Tobacco Institute (Industry Trade Association)
The purpose of the Institute was to defeat legislation unfavorable to the industry, put a positive spin on the tobacco industry, bolster the industry's credibility with legislators and the public, and help maintain the controversy over "the primary issue" (the health issue).- Tobacco Observer (periodical)
- Tobacco Tax Council
- White House
- World Health Organization (Concerned with global public health)
International organization concered with public health worldwide - Agency for International Development
- Named Person
- Aaron, David
- Allen, Fred
- Banzhaf, John F., III (Exec. Dir. Action of Smoking & Health (ASH))
Executive Director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).Professor of Law at Georgetown. Banzhaf succeeded in using the Fairness Doctrine to get cigarette commercials off television in 1968. See Banzhaf FCC, 405 F, 2d 1082 (D.C. Cir. 1968) (affirming FCC ruling that radio and television stations must devote a significant amount of broadcast time to case against smoking). His telephone number is (202) 659-4310. The big focus in past years has been to force OSHA to enforce smoking bans, per Matt Bars. ASH publishes Smoking and Health Review bulletins. "A leading anti-smoking activist" (Chic. Sun-Times 6/23/93). Action on Smoking and Health is located at 2013 H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006. (Castano Expert List) See Action on Smoking a Health, TTLA Almanac - Names.- Bennett, Richard H.
- Blum, Alan Mayer M.D. (Doctors Ought to Care (DOC) Founder, Plaintiff Expert)
- Breslow, Lester, M.D. (CA Director of Public Health (1960s-70s), Plaintiff Expert)
Plaintiff- Brown, Clair
- Bryan, William Jennings
- Califano, Joseph Anthony, Jr. (Sec. of U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare)
Joseph Califano Jr. is the former secretary of Health, Education and Welfare (1977-1979), in Carter's administration (A 5/17/94; WP 4/3/85). He spoke against the tobacco industry on ABC's "Day One" program. He testified before the Waxman subcommittee on 5/17/94. He was an adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson (AP 5/17/94). He was President of Columbia University's Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, circa 1994 (AP 5/17/94).- Carl, Gaye
- Chenet, Pierre
- Cobb, Tyrus Raymond "Ty" (Pro. Baseball Player (1905-28), spoke against cigarettes)
Detroit Tigers 1905-26, Philadelphia Athletics 1927-28, Inducted into Baseball Hall of Fame 1936. Highest career batting average in baseball history.- Comes, Betty
- Cox, John
- Dalton, John N.
- Dickson, Naida
- Donoghue, Carole
- Duff, Lucy
- Elliot, Richard
- Fontenot, Daniel, Jr.
- Forbes, Malcolm S.
- Ford, Wendell H.
- Forward, Clifford
- Ganin, Clara
- Gaston, Lucy Page (Editor of the National Anticigarette League)
- Gay, Virginia
- Georgiades, Peter
- Gephardt, Richard A.
- Gouin, Clara (founder of Group Against Smoking Pollution)
- Graves, Doug
- Harding, Warren
- Harris, Patricia Roberts (Secretary for TI)
- Helms, Jesse (U.S. Senator, (R-North Carolina))
Strongly pro-tobacco- Huddleston, Walter D.
- Hymel, Curt
- Ill, John Banzhaf
- Jones, Will
- Kelly, Jack
- Lear, Norman (Hollywood director, responsible for "Cold Turkey" (1971) and)
Hollywood director, responsible for "Cold Turkey" (1971) and All in the Family- Leighton, Nancy
- Lewis, Jerry (actor)
- Lincoln, Abraham (US president)
- Twain, Mark (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, author)
Reported to have said, "Giving up smoking is easy. I've done it hundreds of times." A favorite quote of the tobacco side, to indicate the public has known for many decades that smoking is addictive.- Mccracken, William
- Milton, John
- Morgan, Robert D.
- Morris, A. Philip
- Nader, Ralph (Consumer Activist)
Consumer activist long renowned for a career of exposing corporate deception and wrongdoing that result in human harm.- Nichter, Rhoda
- Peterson, David
- Samuels, Sheldon
- Shumway, Norman D.
- Taylor, Samuel
- Templeton, Leroy F.
- Terry, Luther Leonidas, M.D. (Surgeon General, 61-65, U of Pennsylvania, Anti-Tobacco Expe)
Luther Terry was former Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service from 1961 to 1965. Terry was emeritus professor of Research Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1984 (E. Whelan 1984).- Wampler, William C.
- Warfield, Frances
- Wharton, Robert V.
- Williams, Steven
- Wilson, David G.
- Wolfe, Sidney M. D.
Plaintiff- Wyatt, Wilson W., Jr. (Dir. of Corp. Affairs & Corp. Communications, B&W '79-80)
Wilson Wyatt was Manager of Corporate Affairs/Corporate Communications for B&W in the CA Department from 1979-80. (Source: B&W's Initial Disclosure, State of Texas vs. ATC, et al., 6/5/96) - Allen, Fred
- Date Loaded
- 16 Mar 2005
- Box
- 8236
Document Images
"'Smoking Stinks."
In 1977, the American Cancer So-
ciety tested in Illinois a TV campaign
with this theme, aimed at convincing
teenagers that smoking cigarettes will
ruin sex appeal.
The next year tim campaign went
nationwide. Now, according to an ACS
vice president, it is simplygoing-to he
replaced by a campaign entitled "Quit-
ters Can Be Winners."
But while it lasted, the "Smoking
Stinks"effort r~celved a barrage of criti-
cism.
The Tobacco Observer pointed out
that the campaign "promotes heckling,
alienation, supefficiaiity, and sexism."
"Applying its reasoning, if men are
not attracted to a young woman she is
a failure and subject to ostracism ....
The commercials.., disavow any worth
in women other than their acceptance
by men," said The Observer in early
1978.
Tim ads depict the winner of an auto-
mobile race driving his car into the vic-
tory circle, only to he repulsed when
the "speedway queen," a smoker, leans
over to kiss him. Instead, he speeds
away.
In another spot, a lifeguard runs away
from mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for
a pretty, albeit drowning smoker. Pigs
follow a pretty young smoker in yet
another "Smoking Stinks" ad. Other
ads were takeoffs on well-known fairy
tales.
The New London (Conn.) Day
likened the ads to "the pitchmen who
hawk.., products concocted to make
you sweet and wholesome to others.
Such products have gained huge mar-
kets simply by instilling the fear [that]
your breath smells bad."
"Appeal To Prejudice"
The strongest criticism of the cam-
paign came from scientists at the Philip
Morris Research Center, Richmond,
Virginia, who, as private citizens, con-
tacted both a Iocai TV station and the
ACS to complain.
"Apparently the ACS feels that the
only way a girl can meet the man of her
dreams is by smelling good," wrote one
researcher. "If thls is what the ACS is
concerned about, then why don't they
use their donated monies to promote d~-
odorants, perfumes, and mouthwash?"
"I fear," he wrote, "any advertise-
ment which contains prejudices toward
any group of people, since it allows any
minority to be mocked with miscon-
ceptions and faisehoeds."
The scientists pr~esented petitions to
the "IV station, calling the anti-smoking
messages "highlyoffensive, derogatory,
and bigoted, and devoid of any mean-
ingful health-related content.
"'An obvious attempt is being made to
ostracize a pa~co]ar group ofpeople;'
the pelitians sa~d. "q'he messages are an
appeal to prejudice rather than reason,"
"As a parent with young children
(and incidentally a nonsmoker), I am
particularly concerned when a televi-
sion presentation with characters simi-
lar to those seen on Sesame Street
makes an appeal for intolerance," wrote
a scientist to the local TV station.
A Philip Morris chemist wrote in
protest that "these current attempts to
debase smokers have, of course, tradi-
tionally been used against various mi-
nority groups in order to justify 'sec-
oud-class' treatment."
In a letter to the ACS, the same set-
Seventeen "city slickers" from The Tobacco Institute in Washington, D. C.. re-
cently visited North Carolina to spend a day in the tobacco fields. Tl" s Gaye Carl
helps take in the crop, with aid fi'om a yottng expert.
entist wrote, "I fa~ to see hew such
an encouragement of hatred, however
subtle, can he justified by a publicly
funded organization which claims to be
supporting research on the mechanisms
of diseases."
"I, for one;" he wrote, "'believe that
smokers can be tolerated, but bigotry
stinks. Clearly, there are intelligent and
tasteful ways in which anti-smoking
messages could be presented."
'if'his announcement," wrote one
scientist, "instills fear and misconcep-
~tions in our female teenagers, that be-
cause of smoking they will never be
kissed and most importantly of all that
they never will meet the man of their
dreams.
"This conception is absurd," he
wrote, "since there are many happily
married couples where one spouse
smokes and the other does not."
EDITOR'S NOTE: If you have a qtms-
tlon aheot tobacco, write us.
Question: What is the tobacco indus-
try's view on proposals to restrict pub-
lic smoking such as ones rejected by
voters in California and Dade County,
Florida?
Answer: The industry is pleased that
appeals for unnecessary government
regulation of smoking in public places
have been rejected, according to Jack
Kelly, Tobacco Institute senior vice
president and director of state activities.
The airing of views on both sides of
the issue will bring about better under-
standing and courtesy between smokers
and nonsmokers.
These are not victories for cigarettes.
From the beginning, there have been
questions of more spending of tax
money, greater costs for business estab-
lishments, and--the thing you can't put
a dollar amount on-setting the prece-
dent for loss of personai freedoms and
property rights, government interfer-
ence, and state control of personal be-
havior.
Smokers today. Who else tomorrow.'?
That's what these elections have been
about, Kelly says.
There's no reason in our opinion for
anyone to boast about the outcome of
these elections. The disturbing fact is
that they had to occur at all.
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