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On January 6, 1989, Robert Rosner appeared on the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour asserting his opinion that smoking is addictive. I think that in our society we have a slight problem, that what we do is we look at smoking and we say it's a personal choice issue and we forget that for millions and millions of people, once they start smoking, the personal choice goes out the window; they are hooked to an addictive drug. Consistently, a majority of both alcohol users and drug users say that they had a much tougher time kicking nicotine than they did kicking alcohol and heroin. Later in this same program, Rosner discussed the issue of advertising and young people. He offered his solution to the appeal of tobacco advertising to young people. See, the problem is that education is boring and Madison Avenue is smart, and what we've been doing is we've been going up with a sling shot against Madison Avenue, and I think we have to fight fire with fire. At this point in the program, a public service announcement against smoking was aired. (Tab 48) On the 25th anniversary of the first Surgeon General's Report, Surgeon General Koop talked about Robert Rosner who had just received the Surgeon General's Medallion and the Smoking Policy Institute of which Rosner is the Executive Director. According to the Surgeon General, The Institute is a credible, visible and centralized information resource, committed to protecting people from involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke in the work place and to helping N O N N ~ ~ C11 N ~ ~

business develop healthy options to smoking in the work place. In the same article, Rosner pointed to a key success in banning smoke at the Lexington Clinic, a Kentucky medical center. "Rosner quipped, ' We got smoking banned in the middle of the tobacco belt."' "Smoking; Anti-Smoking Group Knows How to Clear the Air," Universal Press International, Jan. 11, 1989. (Tab 51) On January 29, 1990, the King County Medical Blue Shield, a company located in Seattle, announced that it would offer rate discounts on group medical plans to an employer that employs nonsmokers and maintains a smoke free work place. The spokeswoman for King County Medical said that a public education campaign on the dangers of passive smoking as well as advertising on the discounts had sparked a "pretty lively" response. The public education campaign was also sponsored by the Smoking Policy Institute of Seattle, advertising the availability of booklets on how to stop smoking and how to "kick" someone else's habit. According to the news release, the ads in the campaign said that inhalation of someone else's cigarette smoke, at home or at work, can double a person's chance of developing lung cancer and other serious respiratory diseases. "Reduced Medical Plan Rates Offered to Smoke Free Employers of Nonsmokers," 17 Pens. Rep. (BNA) No. 9 at 378 (Feb. 26, 1990). (Tab 52) In another article discussing the action of King County Medical, Robert Rosner was reported to have said that a new •-vernment study demonstrates ttie need for more action like that

of King County Medical. Mr. Rosner was identified as the Executive Director of the Seattle-based Smoking Policy Institute, "which fights smoking and promotes no smoking policies and activities." "Insurance Carrier Cuts Losses on High-Risk Clients," The Seattle Times, Mar. 5, 1990, at D-2. *(Tab 53) An article in Employee Benefit News, April 1990, identified Bob Rosner as an anti-smoking advocate. (Tab 55) In his capacity as Director of the Seattle, Washington-based Smoking Policy Institute, Rosner has been working eight years to get companies to start up smoking policies, and he has heard just about every excuse for not doing it. Eight years would push Mr. Rosner's smoking policy work back to 1982. In May 1990, the Smoking Policy Institute released statistics concerning how many companies restrict smoking and of that number how many ban it totally. According to those figures, 60% of the companies restrict smoking; 24% of those ban it from the,wprk place entirely. "Burning Issue at Work; Firms' Rules Put Smokers Under Fire," USA Today, May 1, 1990, at 1B. (Tab 57) In June 1990 when the Environmental Protection Agency released its draft report on second hand smoke, Robert Rosner of the Smoking Policy Institute was identified as one of the chief authors of the report and a Seattle consultant on nonsmoking policies. Rosner was quoted as saying, "The most important thing is that there are not just health concerns but a variety of issues" surrounding second hand smoke. Rosner identified safety concerns 4 - 12 -

and employee morale as well. "Keep Smokers and Nonsmokers Apart," The Seattle Times, June 25, 1990, at A-1. (Tab 59) In August 1990, Jennifer Stock of the Smoking Policy Institute referred to the numerous reports on tobacco issued by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. "It gave non-smokers the equivalent of a heavy duty fire extinguisher. Many took the news to their unions and demanded a smoke-free work place," says Stock of the Smoking Policy Institute. "It gave them (non-smokers) the courage to take a position," she says. "It's something that everybody knew, but this gave them something to refer to." "Don't Light Up Near Me," Gannett News Service, August 2, 1990. (Tab 62) Since the first of August, Robert Rosner and the Smoking Policy Institute have maintained a low profile in the media. No articles mentioning either since that time were found.

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SMOKING POLICY INST'ITUTE IND X Incorporation Materials Tab Articles of Incorporation, Aug. 13, 1986. 1 Annual Reports (1987-1990) 2 Application for Status as a Public Benefit Nonprofit Corporation 3 ArticlesfReports Authored by Smoking Policy Institute Martin, Fehrenbach and Rosner, "Ban on Smoking in Industry," 315 New Eng. J. of Med., 647 (Sept. 4, 1986). 4 Rosner, "Subsidizing Smokers -- Something to Burn Over," Los Angeles Times, Nov. 17, 1988, at 7, Co1. 3. 5 News Reports/Broadcasts "Health Group Bans Smoking," The United Press International, Apr. 26, 1984. 6 "For Your Information," PR Newswire, Nov. 14, 1984. 7 "2 Burning Questions: Who Tells Smokers to Put It Out?," The Washington Post, July 28, 1985, at D1. 8 "Business Notes," The New York Times, Sept. 29, 1985, at 12, Col. 5. 9 "Nonsmoking Business Can Mean Money in Bank, Conference Told," The Washington Post, Oct. 6, 1985, at B3. 10 "Where There's Smoke in the Office, There's Fire," Washington Business Journal, at 1, Mar. 31, 1986, 4:46. 11 "Workplace Smoking Ban Works, Researchers Say," United Press International, Sept. 3, 1986. "Banning Smoking in Workplace Helps Smokers Quit But They Don't Quit Their Jobs, Researcher Finds," Business Wire, Sept. 3, 1986. m ~ "Doctor Says Hospitals Should Ban Smoking," The Associated Press, Sept. 3, 1986. 14

"Doctor Urges Hospitals to Ban Smoking," The Associated Press, Sept. 4, 1986. 15 "South Africa: Confronting Apartheid," The MacNeil/ Lehrer NewsHour, Sept. 9, 1986. 16 "The Drive to Kick Smoking at Work," Fortune, Sept. 15, 1986, at 42. 17 "The Smoking Lamp is Definitely Not Lit; Firms in Northwest lead Nation in Imposing Total Ban on Lighting Up in the Workplace," Los Angeles Times, Oct. 12, 1986, at 1, Col. 1. 18 "Fallout; Second-Hand Smoke," The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, Nov. 14, 1986. 19 "WARNING: In More and More Places, Smoking Causes Fines," Business Week, Dec. 29, 1986, at 40. 20 "Appeals Court Rules Nonsmokers May Sue Employers for Negligence," Daily Lab. Rep. (BNA), at A-3 (Jan. 8, 1987. 21 "Nonsmokers May Sue Employers, Appeals Court Precedent Rules," Government Employee Relations Report, Jan. 12, 1987, Vol. 25 at 46. 22 "Mounting Drive on Smoking Stirs Tensions in Workplace," The New York Times, Feb. 20, 1987, at 1, Col. 1. 23 "WARNING: No Smoking in the Office Anymore," Business First-Buffalo, Mar. 16, 1987 at 19. 24 "Washington State Supreme Court Will Review Secondhand Smoke Case," 63 Daily Lab. Rep., (BNA), at A-1 (Apr. 3, 1987). 25 "Cry, The Embattled Smoker; Fume and Gloom as Activists Invade Tobacco Road," The Washington Post, Apr. 3, 1987, at B-1. 26 "Is Smoking in Public on its Last Gasps; Tempers Flare as Anti-Cigarette Forces Wage an All-Out War," cs Angeles Times, Apr. 18, 1987, at 4, Col. 1. "Thou Shalt Not Smoke; Companies Restrict the Use of Tobacco in the Workplace," Time, May 18, 1987, at 58. - 2 -

"For Travelers, The Breathing is Easiest in First Class," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 2, 1987, at 7, Col. 2. 29 "A Last Gasp for Smokers on Airliners?" Los Angeles Times, Aug. 2, 1987, at 1, Col. 1. 30 "The New Pariahs; Drinking Drivers, Smokers and Swingers Targeted in Sudden Turnaround of Attitudes," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 10, 1987, at 1, Col. 1. 31 "New Study Says Federal Agencies Smoking Policies Inadequate," The Associated Press, Oct. 15, 1987. 32 "Koop Pleased at Progress in Cutting Federal Workplace Smoking," The Associated Press, Oct. 15, 1987. 3~3 "There's No Smoke, Little Ire for Skokie's Police Recruits," Chicago Tribune, Nov. 8, 1987, at 1. 34 "Majority of Companies Have Smoking Policies," United Press International, Nov. 17, 1987. 35 "Smokers Hide and Drag Harder as Society Makes Them Outcasts," The New York Times, Nov. 19, 1987, at 20, Col. 1. 36 "Workplace Smoke Lightening Up as Fewer Light Up," The Christian Science Monitor, Dec. 11, 1987, at 13. 37 "Where There's Smoke, There's Ire; After Years on the Defensive, Smokers Fight Back," Los Angeles Times, Jan 14, 1988, at 4, Col. 1. 38 "Smoking &-Drug Policies; Whose Rights?" Industry Week, Feb. 1, 1988, at 39. 39 "Taking on Big Tobacco in Dixie," U.S. News & World e ort, Feli. 8, 1988, at 20. 40 "The Ten Healthiest Cities in America," Family Media, Mar. 1988, Vol. 20 at 31. 41 "All Fired Up Over Smoking; New Laws and Attitudes Spark a War," im , Apr. 18, 1988, at 64. 4 2 "Smoking Becomes 'Deviant Behavior,'" The New York Times, Apr. 24, 1988, at 1, Col. 1. 43 ~ "Weeding Smokers Out of the Workplace," UMI/Data Courier, May 23, 1988, Vol. 83 at 1. 4 4 N ~' ~ 3

"Court Ruling Heats Up Smoking War," Chicacxo Tribune, June 15, 1988 at 1. 45 "Enron," United Press International, Oct. 12, 1988. 46 "Seattle Smoking Foe Cited by Koop," The Associated Press, Nov. 30, 1988. 47 "Pentagon Probe; Iran-Contra Case; Kids and Smoking," The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, Jan. 6, 1989. 48 "Like Converted Sinners, Ex-Smokers Take Up Preaching When They Have Gone Over ...," Gannett News Service, Jan. 10, 1989. 49 "Preaching, Not Puffing; Born-Again Quitters Seek 'Converts'; But Smokers Still Resist the Message," USA Today, Jan. 11, 1989, at 1D. 50 "Smoking; Anti-Smoking Group Knows How to Clear the Air," United Press International, Jan. 11, 1989. 51 "Reduced Medical Plan Rates Offered to Smokefree Employers of Non-Smokers," 17 Pen. Rep. (BNA) No. 9, at 378 (Feb. 26, 1990). 52 "Insurance Carrier Cuts Losses on High-Risk Clients," The Seattle Times, Mar. 5, 1990, at D2. 53 "The Executive Life; Humiliating Times for a Boss Who Smokes," The New York Times, Mar. 18, 1990, at 25, Col. 1. 54 "Insurer'Offers Discounts to Non-Smoking Groups," Employee Benefit News, Apr. 1990, at 14. 55 "Smokers: An Endangered Species," Gannett News Service, ~ Apr. 30, 1990. 56 "Burning Issue at Work; Firms' Rules Put Smokers Under Fire," USA Today, May 1, 1990, at 1B. 57 O "Since 1986, When the Surgeon General Cited ...," Gannett ~ News Service, May 1, 1990. 58 ~ "EPA: Keep Smokers Nonsmokers Apart," The Seattle Times, ~ ~ at Al. June 25 1990 59 , , "More and More Firms Adopt Smoking Policies," USA Today, N cc Q1 June 26, 1990. 60

c "Where There's Smoke You May be Fired -- or at Least Not Hired," Chicago Tribune, July 16, 1990, at 8. 61 "Don't Light Up Near Me!" Gannett News Service, Aug. 2, 1990. 62 "Tobacco Profits Still a Picture of Health," Chicago Tribune, Aug. 13, 1990, at 1. 63