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® ® R.J. REYNOLDS PARTISAN MOVEMENT WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT FIELD COR !Will Fox WEEK ENDINGl11/28/90 REGION: ARIZONA, COLORADO, NEW MEXICO, WYOMING Now that I have all the cobwebs removed from my home, I can finally get down to some serious business. It appears everything ran smoothly while I was gone, thanks to Whitey's ability to cover some of my groups activities. The leaders that did get to work with Mike were very pleased with all the info he provided them with. Reality is finally setting in now that I'm back in Colorado. I keep looking out my window in hopes of seeing the mighty blue pacific ocean with some bikini clad women walking around. Now all I see is 2 inches of snow and everyone bundled up as if were cold outside or something.(-8 wind chill factor) And now I have to file the dreaded bi-annual weekly report - Reality sucks. Actually I'm happy to be back at the helm and getting reaquainted with my group leaders. It sounds like they all took care of their groups without a hitch. I guess that's how the program is suppose to work. Enough procrastinating. On with the details. ARIZONA Scottsdale Chris Hayes has managed to keep very busy making his people work on group projects. They held their 1st Annual Smokers' Rights Ball on October 13 and had over 50 people attend. Chris said everything went well and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. The 3 groups that helped to sponsor this event made $100.00. Not bad for an evenings worth of work. The 3 groups plan on taking some of the money they made and will have a Christmas party on Dec. 8. I plan on attending and congratulating them on a great year. Glendale Barbara Howard reports that her group has spent the last two meetings working on by-laws and will vote on them in Jan. She said they have been averaging 6 attenders at each meeting. Phoenix Sandi Campbell has been meeting in coordination with the Glendale group over the last couple of months in hopes of saving her group. She has decided they will try to meet on their own starting in Jan. or Feb. of next year. They are in the process of looking for a more central location to meet. Sandi has asked me if we could help her with a get reaquainted meeting sometime in Feb. We could do the same thing we did for Tucson this past Sept.

• Tucson Pat Hesse has been very busy trying to get her group back up and going. After our meeting in Sept. where we had 24 attenders, she has tried to get some of the new folks to take on a leadership role. She hasn't had much luck but will continue to move on. She attended a Piina County Health Department meeting 3 weeks ago to learn that they are trying to license vending machines and make them more difficult for juveniles to get to them. It appears this was a preliminary meeting and Pat tells me they will have a public meeting in the future. She will continue to monitor this situation and let me know when_the__next meeting will take place. Ernie Hoffman from the TI was present at this meeting and I'm still trying to track him down to get his input. At Pat's October meeting, she had 9 attenders and they wrote thank you notes to the airport manager for placing the smoking sections in reasonable places. They also asked him to keep them apprised of any movement to ban smoking from the airport. Chandler Mike Skelly has held a couple of well attended meetings the last few months averaging 16 attenders. He said he is growing very frustrated with his group because all they want to do is gripe but do nothing about it. He invited some candidates to speak to his group but no one accepted. He said he plans on sticking with the program to try to make it work. Surprise Becky McKoon finally gave up on her group. She resigned as the President because she couldn't deal with a bunch of old people who just wanted to sit around and get drunk. Becky is going to stay active with the Glendale group which meets just a few miles - - away. It's unfortunate she resigned because she is a dynamite person. At least she isn't walking away altogether. The new president is Ms. Toni Bent and I will be meeting with her when I visit Az. at the end of next week. Flagstaff It appears that the city council is trying to ban smoking in all restaurants in town. They are holding a public hearing next Tues., Dec. 4 at 7pm. I have contacted the few folks that we had attend our SRM last Dec. to enlist their help. We only have 5 people in the area that could help out. I spoke with all 5 last night and everyone was interested in making phone calls to city hall and they all said they would try to round up friends and get them to go to the meeting. I've asked 2 of these folks to call with the results of the meeting next tues. night. Maybe I can persuade one of these guys to take an active role in getting a group more organized. COLORADO Denver

® 0 Steve Cronan is alive and well and very thankful of Mike's input during their petition drive against Mayor Pena and their press conference. It appears everything went off without a hitch and the groups got very positive press coverage. Up until a week ago, Steve hadn't heard a word from the Mayor's office as to what, if anything might change. After a month and a half, the Mayor wrote back and said he was going to keep the smoking ban in effect. As I write this report, two things are happening. First, the Mayor has just announced that he will not seek reelection next year. This is good news for smokers. At least they will have a fighting chance to get one of their own elected. Second, Rick Reiter just faxed me a copy of a proposed bill that would allow smoking areas to stay at Stapleton Airport. Councilwoman Cathy Reynolds will introduce it when she gets the votes lined up. I'm not sure what role our group should play in this situation. Rick mentioned that he spoke to Cathy Reynolds on election night and that she thought our smokers were a bit on the fanatical side. Maybe she wasn't that impressed with Cronan's 33 attenders who came to see her speak to the group. I've asked Cronan if there was anything that might have been done to make her think this way but he says no. Steve has mentioned that Phillip Morriss has certainly shown an interest in getting involved with his group. They have offered to send a speaker - someone from their sales force - send literature and videos. When Steve didn't respond, someone from ASA sent him a follow-up letter trying to get him to bite. Steve doesn't want to have anything to do with them but if we want to collect some data on what it is that PM is offering, then he said we could use his group to collect this information. Steve and People for Smokers' Rights celebrate their third anniversary this coming Dec. 1. They have a meeting planned for that day and I will present the group a plaque for their achievment. Mike was able to get a nice congratulatory letter from Jim Johnston sent off to Steve this week also. Colorado Springs Billy Allison is growing leary of his group. It seems like they have 20 attenders at every monthly meeting but nobody wants to do anything. All they do is bitch. Billy has had it and is planning on stepping down as president at next months meeting. He said he will stay involved but won't do all the work. Billy said if no one is interested in taking over, then he will recommend that those who are interested in doing anything, should meet every couple of months. If I'm in town, I will try to make the meeting. Grand Junction This group is going great guns under the direction of Fred Wilson. The group was able to get a smoking room reestablished at the VA Hospital. The smoking room is on the main floor, but the group is trying to get them on all floors now. The group is averaging 15-20 attenders at their monthly meetings. They meet at the local Bingo Hall on the 2nd Sat. of every month. After their meetings, they stay and try to recruit new members at the hall. The group held a great american smoke in at different locations in town. They picked up one new member from this. Fred is gung ho

and looking forward to taking on more smokers' rights crusades ® next year. Ft. Collins-Loveland Michelle Clausen has stood firm in holding her monthly meetings even though she sometimes only gets 2 or 3 members. They worked on getting signatures to fight Mayor Pena's ban donw in Denver and were able to come up with 150 signatures. They sent them off to his office last year. Arvada George Shoemate tells me that the group has gone dormant for the holidays but will be back up and running on the 3rd tues. of Jan. Aurora I spoke to Jerry Lisse for the first time in many months. He said his group is going strong and that he has gotten the local cable tv station to sponsor a one hour talk show on smokers' rights. The program is going to be taped in the next couple of weeks. Jerry asked if we could supply him with some basic facts. I am in the process of getting hold of Maura Payne to give Jerry a briefing. NEW MEXICO Albuquerque Dorothy Jameson is becoming very frustrated with her group. She is getting tired of doing all the work for her group. She has officers but when she assigns them a project, they never do it. Group attendance is dwindling - only 5 in Sept. and Oct. She is hoping to get more at their Dec. meeting. She is talking about rotating meetings with Belen(30 min. away) starting next year. On a more positive note, the groups treasury is at $180.00. Belen Roy Proctor and his group are still celebrating for helping to keep the FET down to 4 cents. They were excited about collecting over 2,000 signatures and getting them off to their Senator's and Congressman. The group is looking forward to next year where they hope to get a friendly legislator to introduce a bill that would make it a law to provide a smoking area in all public buildings. Roy's chomping at the bit to get started. Roswell Here's a group that seems to have its act together under the direction of George Lee. The group has been very active in writting letters to their elected officials to let them know about their existence. They petitioned the local hospital board to get them to keep one smoking room in the hospital. They were successful and now they are going to try to get a smoking room on each of the floors. The group participated in the Supervisors meeting that banned smoking from the County building. They delivered over 200 signatures against the ban. Even though they

! . weren't successful in stopping it, they have been working on ways to get them to implement a smoking area. They won't give up until they have one. The group is now participating in an adopt a highway program. They have printed business cards for the group and are passing them out all over town. They have even gotten into the xmas spirit by getting cards printed with santa smoking and inviting everyone to their xmas bash in Dec. And to top things off, the group has participated in the last two swap meets and have earned the group $200.00 for their work.