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M]~MORANDUM TO: W. Kloepfer J. Kelly J. Mills G. Schafer FROM: D. Milway There will be an Operations Committee meeting Monday, November 9, at 8:30 A.M. to discuss the attached. cc: H. Kornegay S. Chilcote DAM:dh T118320985

M E ~.~ 0 R A N D U ~.! TO: Alex Spears Arthur Stevens FROM: Fred Panzer DATE: June 19, 1981 The attached letter, name of adressee deleted, should answer your inquiry of June 15 based on Alex's memo to you on June 5, regarding Jesse Steinfeld organizing an ACS smoking and health meeting. The National Conference On Smoking Or Health appears to be an ACS front organization. cc: Horace Kornegay Sam Chilcote Jack Mills William Kloepfer George Schafer Bill Shinn Ed Jacob TI18320986

National conference on Smoking OR Health DeVeloping a Blueprint forAction waldo~-Astoria Hotel. New York, New YorK, November 18-20.1981 June ii, 1981 Charles A. LeMais1:re. M.D. Ct~aerman. Planning comfnl~r.ee Twenty-one national organizations will sponsor an extraordinary all-working Conference on Smoking-O._~RHealth at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City November 18-20, 1981. The purpose: to rede- fine and redirect smoking control activities for maxlmumimpact and efficiency. The Honorable Richard S. Schweiker, Secretary of the Dep~rtment of Health and Human Services, will give the .keynote speech when he opens the Conference at 1"0:30 AM on Wednesday, November 18. This will be followed by ~wo full days of Work Group discussion ~o c~- clude by no~ on Friday. Since ~hls is ~o be an "action-oriented" Conference, invitations are going only to 20 individuals w~d will brinE practical expertise in each of nine (9) major potential impact • areas of smokinE control~ a total of 180 participants. Each area will be treated in depth; details are outlined in the enclosed flyer. Dr. ~arrenWinkelstei~, Dean of the School of Public Health, University of California, and Mr. John Pinney~ Director of the Office on Smoking and Health~ have recommended to the Conference Steering Committee that you should be invited to participate wi~h the Work Group that will deal exclusively with the subject: FETURE STRATEGIES POE TPLE CHANGING C~GARETTE. A related "State-of-the-Art" Position Paper is presently 'being prepared by Dr. John Holbrook of the University of Utah, which you will receive along with a de~ailed agenda well in advance of the Conference. Each Work Group is expected to develop a plan to further smoking control in its assigned area. To insure the feasibility and success of ~he plan, ~he resources needed and ~he s~ructure mus~ be identified. Each working group's plan will be woven into an overall National BLUEP~INT FOK ACTION for smoking control. Please return the enclosed RSVP form at your earliest opportunity (no later than June 29, 1981) indicating your acceptance of our invitation. As noted on the form, the ACS is prepared to reimburse you your expenses, and hote~ accommodations will be arranged as required. Enc. CC: Warren Winkelstein, Jr., M.D. John Pinney Lawrence Garfinkel Allan C. E~ickson ~sincerely yours, Charles A. LeMaistre, M.D. Conference Chairman TI18320987

National Conference on Smoking Developing a Blueprint for Action " Waldorf-ASl:oria Hotel, New York, New York, Novem~erl~-20,1981 "FACT SHEET OR Health Unlike many conferences, where participants mainly listen to others deliver papers, the National Con- ference on Smoking OR Health will be a working session where experts will deal with key problems and • issues and then develop a concrete plan for action in the fight against smoking. WHO WILL PARTICIPATE? Attendance at the conference is by invitation only. Those invited have been selected either because they have special expertise in some aspect of smoking control, or because they have a capacity to get • things done, to effectuate progress and change in the field by virtue ot their organizational affiliation or personal influence. The American Cancer Society has spearheaded the planning and coordination of the conference, in cooperation with 20 other national groups, anti,will manage all operational details. All conference ex- • penses will be assumed by ACS, including the t'~vel and hotel costs incurred by participants (except where an organization prefers to underwriie its r~p, resentative's expenses). There is no registration fee. HOW WILL THE CONFERENCE PROCEED? Following a keynote address by Health and Human Services Secretary Richard Schweiker on Wednes- day morning, November 18, participants will divide into work groups for analysis of nine priority areas where further action can have a meaningful impact on the smoking problem. ~Everyone will have received a position paper ahead of time to facilitate discu~sion.i On Friday morning, November 2g, '~ • BLUEPRINT FOR ACTION will be developed, based on the~ecommendations of the nine group& which will specifically identify, mechanisms and resources necessary for implementation. WHAT PRIORITY ABEAS FOR ACTION WILL BE ADDRESSED? • Prevention of'Smoking Through Comprehensive School Health Education . 'Session Leadership: Merlin K. DuVaI,.M.D., President, National Center for Health Education, San Francisco, California Marshall W. Kreuter, Ph.D., Chairman, Health Sciences Division, College of Health, Salt Lake City, Utah Use'of the "High Risk" Concept in Smoking Control Sess~n Leadership: Lester Breslow, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Public Health, UCLA School of Public Health . Daniel Horn, Ph.D., Former Director of National Clearinghouse on Smoking and Health, HEW Advancing the Role of Hospitals in Reducing Smoking Session Leadership: Ruth Behrens, Director, Center for Health Promotion. American Hospital Association William GTiffiths, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health, Universit~ of California at Berkeley Donald Welsh, President, Adventist Hospital System/Sunbelt, Orlando, Florida Smoking Control in the Workplace Session Leadership: Robert Beck, Director of Benefits and Per.sonnel Services. IBM Corporation, Ar~onk, New York Willis Bo Goldbeck, Executive Director. Washington Business Group on Health Stephen F. Keat|ng, Former Chief Executive Officer. Honeywell. Min- neapolis. Minnesota Address correspondence I:0 ACS. 777 Third Avenue. N.Y.. N¥ 10017. IZ1PJ 371-29C~3 T118320988

h~gh Prim'ity Federal, State and l.~ma! Governmental Initiatives Session Leadership: William Anderson, M.D., Chief ot~Resl::)iratory and Environmental Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine: Chairman of National Interagen- cy Council on Smoking & Health , Chades R. Ebersol, Lawyer, Litchfield, Connecticut; Former Chairman. ACS National Board of Directors Philip R. Lee, M.D., Professor of Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Douglas Lloyd, M.D., Commissioner, ConnectiCut Department of Health Services • Tobacco-Related Research: New Opportunities, New Administrative Mechanisms Session Leadership: Jesse L. Steinfeld, M.D., Dean, M~dical College of Virginia, Richmond Supporting the.Rights of the Nonsmoking M~jodty through the Mass Media Session Leadership: William D. Novelli, President, Porter, Novelli Associates. inc.. Washington; D.C. William M, ~pping~ Chairm~n, National Public Information Committee, ACS Motivating Smokers to Assume Personal Responsibility for Quitting on Their Own Session Leadership: Dee Burton, Ph.D., PsycholQgist. New York Glenn Ho Hughes, Ph.D., Director of Intervention, MRFIT, University of Alabama, Birmingham , • Future Strategies for Session .Leadership: WHO PLANNED THE CONFERENCE? Steering Committee Charles A. Le..Maistre, M.D., Chairman William Anderson, M.D. Merlin K. D.uVal', M.D. Charles R. Ebersol William Griffiths, Ph.D. John M. Pinney Jesse L. Steinfeld, M.D. the Changing Cigarette John M. Pinney, Director, Office on Smoking & Health, Department of Health and Human Services Warren Winkelstein, Jr., M.D., M.P.H., Dean and Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley ("Session Leadership" includes those who planned :~he sessions and those who will lead the work groups in November.) Other Committee Members Matilda A. Babbitz, R.N. Edward J. Beattie, Jr., M.D. Ruth Behrens Helene G. Brown William Cahan, M.D. Thomas Carlile, M.D. John Mack Carter David Oarland, Ph.D. Robert Daugherty, M.D. Joan De Santis George Dessart Randall B. Grove Andrew Haas Dennis F. H.oeffler, M.D., M.P.H. Mary Hughes, Ph.D... Robert J. Johansen Laura Keranen, M.P.H. Louis A. Leone, M.D. Eloise Monzillo, R.N. FOR FURTHER INF~)RMATION, CONTACT: Allan C. Erickson. Conference Staff American Cancer Society 777 Third Avenue New York. NY 10017 (212) 371-2900 John L. Pool, M.D. Jerome L. Schwartz, Dr. P.H. John R. Seffrin, Ph.D. Irving J. Selikoff, M.D. Mary Singletary William R. Tipping Kenneth E. Warner, Ph.D. Roland F. Wear, Jr., M.D. Madilyn Wills T118320989