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<metadesc>A worldwide overview of Tobacco Control Advocates (Past and Present): Individuals (including scientists).</metadesc>
 
 
== Tobacco Control Advocates (Past and Present)==
 
== Tobacco Control Advocates (Past and Present)==
 
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*'''Banzhaf, John'''
 
*'''Banzhaf, John'''
 
:Founder of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), Banzhaf has never met a smoking restriction he did not like, having spoken in support, for example, of bans in apartment and condominium complexes, and job discrimination against smokers. All the way back in 2006 he made it clear that his ultimate intention was total control of smokers, even in their homes: [http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2006/02/26/states-time-to-stub-out-smoking.html "Here we are literally reaching into the last frontier  — right into the home... No longer can you argue, ‘My home is my castle. I've got the right to smoke.’"]  Also see some  [http://www.velvetgloveironfist.com/john_banzhaf_smoking.php background on Banzhaf] by author Christopher Snowdon.
 
:Founder of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), Banzhaf has never met a smoking restriction he did not like, having spoken in support, for example, of bans in apartment and condominium complexes, and job discrimination against smokers. All the way back in 2006 he made it clear that his ultimate intention was total control of smokers, even in their homes: [http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2006/02/26/states-time-to-stub-out-smoking.html "Here we are literally reaching into the last frontier  — right into the home... No longer can you argue, ‘My home is my castle. I've got the right to smoke.’"]  Also see some  [http://www.velvetgloveironfist.com/john_banzhaf_smoking.php background on Banzhaf] by author Christopher Snowdon.
 
 
*'''Bauld, Linda'''
 
*'''Bauld, Linda'''
 
:A "smoking cessation expert" at the University of Bath until 2010, and now Professor of Socio-Management at the University of Stirling, United Kingdom, Dr. Bauld has displayed typical TC obliviousness in stating her incredulity that smokers should be appalled and enraged at government-supported programs designed to destroy smokers' finances, careers, families, social dignity, and their lives generally.
 
:A "smoking cessation expert" at the University of Bath until 2010, and now Professor of Socio-Management at the University of Stirling, United Kingdom, Dr. Bauld has displayed typical TC obliviousness in stating her incredulity that smokers should be appalled and enraged at government-supported programs designed to destroy smokers' finances, careers, families, social dignity, and their lives generally.
 
 
*'''Benowitz, Neal'''
 
*'''Benowitz, Neal'''
 
:Prof. of medicine, UC San Francisco. A reviewer for ''Tobacco Control''. A member and discussion group chair for Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT). Known for his role in the redefinition of the word "addiction" so that it could specifically apply more strongly to smoking.
 
:Prof. of medicine, UC San Francisco. A reviewer for ''Tobacco Control''. A member and discussion group chair for Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT). Known for his role in the redefinition of the word "addiction" so that it could specifically apply more strongly to smoking.
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:Bero has been given substantial RWJF money for this project, the results of which were published in ''JAMA'' (''Journal of the American Medical Association'') in 1999. Basically the “study” says any studies conducted with tobacco funding are bad, but those conducted with other funding (ostensibly including pharmaceutical money from RWJF) are good.  A reviewer for ''Tobacco Control''.
 
:Bero has been given substantial RWJF money for this project, the results of which were published in ''JAMA'' (''Journal of the American Medical Association'') in 1999. Basically the “study” says any studies conducted with tobacco funding are bad, but those conducted with other funding (ostensibly including pharmaceutical money from RWJF) are good.  A reviewer for ''Tobacco Control''.
 
*'''Berteletti-Kemp, Florence'''
 
*'''Berteletti-Kemp, Florence'''
:Works as a consultant on European Union health policy to the Smoke Free Partnership in Brussels and is the Vice President of the European Public Health Alliance.In 2009 she trampled on democratic principles and managed to rally support from the tobacco control community to convince the European parliament to forbid a [http://www.antiprohibition.org/ticap_pages.php?q=12 scheduled conference] organized by international free-choice groups to discuss the concerns of encroaching prohibition.  Some of them falsely accused the organizers of this conference to be tobacco industry representatives when in fact these groups and delegates were ordinary citizens wanting to exercise their right to free speech in a parliament that belongs to all people.  
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:Works as a consultant on European Union health policy to the Smoke Free Partnership in Brussels and is the Vice President of the European Public Health Alliance.
 
*'''Biener, Lois'''*
 
*'''Biener, Lois'''*
 
:Senior Research Fellow, University of Massachusetts at Boston Center for Survey Research, Boston MA.  Listed as a media contact in RWJF’s guide for the “Survey on Responses to the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program.”  The survey would, among other things, “determine the characteristics of smokers who are most responsive to media messages and to determine which segments of the population are most likely to adopt anti-tobacco stances.” Biener received $220,152 from RWJF for that “study.” She is a frequent RWJF grantee who often publishes journal articles with other  RWJF grantees.
 
:Senior Research Fellow, University of Massachusetts at Boston Center for Survey Research, Boston MA.  Listed as a media contact in RWJF’s guide for the “Survey on Responses to the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program.”  The survey would, among other things, “determine the characteristics of smokers who are most responsive to media messages and to determine which segments of the population are most likely to adopt anti-tobacco stances.” Biener received $220,152 from RWJF for that “study.” She is a frequent RWJF grantee who often publishes journal articles with other  RWJF grantees.
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:Co-Director of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights and ANR Foundation. Sat on the Koop/Kessler Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. Also sat on the Special Review Committee, which approved the NCI grant to Richard Daynard to assist in anti-tobacco litigation. Close associate of Stanton Glantz, co-founder and former head of ANR.
 
:Co-Director of Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights and ANR Foundation. Sat on the Koop/Kessler Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. Also sat on the Special Review Committee, which approved the NCI grant to Richard Daynard to assist in anti-tobacco litigation. Close associate of Stanton Glantz, co-founder and former head of ANR.
 
*'''Chaloupka, Frank'''*
 
*'''Chaloupka, Frank'''*
:Chaloupka, Frank:  His history includes the following: Assoc Prof in Economics, U of IL (Chicago). Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).  Reviewer/Assoc. Editor, ''Tobacco Control''.   
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:Chaloupka, Frank:  His history includes the following: Assoc Prof in Economics, U of IL (Chicago). Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).  Reviewer/Assoc. Editor, Tobacco Control.   
 
:Member of the Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco, which, in 1994, got a $1 million grant from RWJF. Member of RWJF's "Research Network on the Etiology of Tobacco Dependence" (TERN). His economic research in the early 90's (funded by RWJF) showed, he claimed, that a 75c/pack tax hike would cut youth smoking in half between 1992 and 1994. He also wrote on the effectiveness of taxation for the US Surgeon General's Reports of 1994 and 1998 and co-authored a 1995 paper, "Criteria for Determining an Optimal Cigarette Tax." All of which have allowed him to combine his two hobbies: hating tobacco and loving taxes.  
 
:Member of the Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco, which, in 1994, got a $1 million grant from RWJF. Member of RWJF's "Research Network on the Etiology of Tobacco Dependence" (TERN). His economic research in the early 90's (funded by RWJF) showed, he claimed, that a 75c/pack tax hike would cut youth smoking in half between 1992 and 1994. He also wrote on the effectiveness of taxation for the US Surgeon General's Reports of 1994 and 1998 and co-authored a 1995 paper, "Criteria for Determining an Optimal Cigarette Tax." All of which have allowed him to combine his two hobbies: hating tobacco and loving taxes.  
 
:Aside from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Chaloupka has  been funded by the federal government (the NCI, the CDC), and such "charities" as the American Cancer Society (ACS), and both the American Lung (ALA) and Heart (AHA) Associations.
 
:Aside from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Chaloupka has  been funded by the federal government (the NCI, the CDC), and such "charities" as the American Cancer Society (ACS), and both the American Lung (ALA) and Heart (AHA) Associations.
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*'''Chapman, Simon'''
 
*'''Chapman, Simon'''
:Australian-based sociologist and [http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2012/01/work-of-art.html anti-smoking zealot]. In 1995 he was caught urging colleagues to doctor a paper that didn't show that environmental tobacco smoke significantly increased a person's risk for lung cancer.  Excerpt from a two page fax he sent, advising against publishing the paper as is lest the Australian tobacco control movement be ridiculed by the journalists.  ''“[L]ook at Table 7 in the way any journalist would … a reasonable conclusion will be that the idea that there is ANY lung cancer caused by ETS (environmental tobacco smoke) in Australia will be seen as a huge joke.”''  Copies of the fax can be found [http://members.iinet.net.au/~ray/ETS1.jpg here] and [http://members.iinet.net.au/~ray/ETS2.jpg here].
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:Australian-based sociologist and [http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.com/2012/01/work-of-art.html anti-smoking zealot].
 
 
 
*'''Cherner, Joe'''*
 
*'''Cherner, Joe'''*
 
:Founder and head of SmokeFree Educational Services in NYC.  Very active in attempting to push smoking bans in New York as policy chair for the Coalition for a Smoke-Free City.  Cherner is one of the zealots who want smoking bans virtually everywhere.  He has been largely unheard from since moving to France several years ago.
 
:Founder and head of SmokeFree Educational Services in NYC.  Very active in attempting to push smoking bans in New York as policy chair for the Coalition for a Smoke-Free City.  Cherner is one of the zealots who want smoking bans virtually everywhere.  He has been largely unheard from since moving to France several years ago.
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:Research director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada. He was involved in initiating work on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
 
:Research director of Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada. He was involved in initiating work on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
 
*'''Connolly, Gregory'''
 
*'''Connolly, Gregory'''
:Dentist. His history includes Director, Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program (and the Health Protection Fund), Mass. Dept. of Public Health, in which capacity he oversaw a budget of about $58 million.  Adviser to WHO’s Panel on Smoking and Health.  Ex-officio member of the board of directors of the American Legacy Foundation.  Chair of the RWJF funded 11th World Conference on Smoking & Health (Chicago, 2000).  Associate Editor on “Politics of Tobacco Control” and reviewer for the journal ''Tobacco Control''.  Involved in tobacco control since ca. l985. He also sat on the Special Review Committee for NCI’s grant to Richard Daynard to assist in anti-tobacco litigation.
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:Dentist. Director, Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program (and the Health Protection Fund), Mass. Dept. of Public Health, in which capacity he oversees a current budget of about $58 million.  Adviser to WHO’s Panel on Smoking and Health.  Ex-officio member of the board of directors of the American Legacy Foundation.  Chair of the RWJF funded 11th World Conference on Smoking & Health (Chicago, 2000).  Associate Editor on “Politics of tobacco control” and reviewer for journal ''Tobacco Control''.  Involved in tobacco control since ca. l985. As has RWJF, the “Health Protection Fund” has funded joint work by Michael Siegel and Lois Biener. He also sat on the Special Review Committee for NCI’s grant to Richard Daynard to assist in anti-tobacco litigation.
 
 
:A member of the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee, established in 2010 after Congress put tobacco under FDA control with an eye to making it “safer” or at least “less harmful.” Connolly wasn’t interested in making it less harmful but in making it disappear–a fact that was widely known. Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, president of the American Council on Science and Health, called him [http://www.acsh.org/factsfears/newsID.1288/news_detail.asp “the most extreme anti-harm-reduction person I’ve ever heard of”]. Connolly [http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-study-shows-that-in-contrast-to.html opposed electronic cigarettes ] but [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-brooks/fire-safe-cigarette-laws_b_519867.html promoted the chemically-laced “fire safe” kind] while dismissing their higher carcinogenic content as unimportant. Connolly also [http://www.lifeclinic.com/fullpage.aspx?prid=617524&type=1 urged the FDA to ban menthol flavoring,] calling it “candy to make the toxins go down.” When the FDA ignored him, [http://gawker.com/5726562/menthols-future-is-looking-bright he quit “in disgust.”]
 
  
*'''Crawford, "Chuck"'''
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:A member of the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee, established in 2010 after congress put tobacco under FDA control with an eye to making it “safer” or at least “less harmful.” Connolly wasn’t interested in making it less harmful but in making it disappear–a fact that was widely known. Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, president of the American Council on Science and Health, called him [http://www.acsh.org/factsfears/newsID.1288/news_detail.asp “the most extreme anti harm reduction person I’ve ever heard of”]. Connolly [http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-study-shows-that-in-contrast-to.html opposed electronic cigarettes ] but [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-brooks/fire-safe-cigarette-laws_b_519867.html promoted the chemically-laced “fire safe” kind] while dismissing their higher carcinogenic content. Connolly also [http://www.lifeclinic.com/fullpage.aspx?prid=617524&type=1 urged the FDA to ban menthol flavoring,] calling it “candy to make the toxins go down.” When the FDA ignored him, [http://gawker.com/5726562/menthols-future-is-looking-bright he quit “in disgust.]
:President of Kimball Physics, an electronics manufacturer in Wilton, NH. In 1993 he set [http://www.kimballphysics.com/about_KPI/visits.htm a company policy ]to ban, not just smokers, but "tobacco-residuals-emitting persons" from his company premises. ("Residuals," Crawford thought, can be "emitted" by nonsmokers if they've recently talked to a smoker.)  Further barred from his door: "anyone who has used a tobacco product within the previous two hours" and "any article of clothing or other object" that has been in the presence of anybody's smoke. [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/aos17a00/pdf Quote Chuck Crawford:] " If someone has a wool suit and walks through a bar, they don't wear that suit into the office." Then, too, employees exposed to smoke at home must immediately shower in the company washroom and change into uncontaminated clothes at the start of the workday. No surprise he's on the [http://www.zoominfo.com/Search/PersonDetail.aspx?PersonID=59768466 Board of Trustees of ASH] (Action of Smoking and Health), but are you slightly surprised that in 2007 he was awarded the [http://www.lungusa.org/get-involved/volunteer/volunteer-of-the-week/chuck-crawford.htm Unsung Hero Award] by the American Lung Association for "his tireless efforts to make tobacco control everybody's goal" and for "encouraging more businesses to follow Kimball's policy"? (Actually, we're not surprised either.)
 
 
*'''Cummings, K. Michael'''*  
 
*'''Cummings, K. Michael'''*  
 
:Sr. Research Scientist, Dept. of Cancer Control & Epidemiology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY.  Also a Research Scientist with Health Research, Inc. of Buffalo. Listed in RWJF’s media guide for his “Assessment of the Effects of New York City’s Smoke-Free Restaurant Law...", a study of tax receipt data to determine the economic impact of the ban while gauging consumers’ and restaurant owners’ response to the ban and steps toward ban compliance. Cummings received $183,133 from RWJF for this study.  
 
:Sr. Research Scientist, Dept. of Cancer Control & Epidemiology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY.  Also a Research Scientist with Health Research, Inc. of Buffalo. Listed in RWJF’s media guide for his “Assessment of the Effects of New York City’s Smoke-Free Restaurant Law...", a study of tax receipt data to determine the economic impact of the ban while gauging consumers’ and restaurant owners’ response to the ban and steps toward ban compliance. Cummings received $183,133 from RWJF for this study.  
 
:Cummings is heavily funded by RWJF and co-authored a 1999 AJHP article with RWJF’s C. Tracy Orleans.  The article focused heavily on cessation treatments and products and advocated more research on cessation and continued tobacco tax increases, counter advertising, and anti-tobacco "advocacy" (lobbying).   
 
:Cummings is heavily funded by RWJF and co-authored a 1999 AJHP article with RWJF’s C. Tracy Orleans.  The article focused heavily on cessation treatments and products and advocated more research on cessation and continued tobacco tax increases, counter advertising, and anti-tobacco "advocacy" (lobbying).   
*'''Curry, Susan J.'''*
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*'''Curry, Susan J'''*
 
:Scientific Investigator, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, WA.  The cooperative has received RWJF funding for studying tobacco cessation/control in HMOs.  She is listed in the RWJF media guide for her project to examine the cost-effectiveness for HMOs to cover the cost of cessation programs (“Impact of Co-Payments on Use of Smoking Cessation Services in an HMO”).
 
:Scientific Investigator, Center for Health Studies, Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound, WA.  The cooperative has received RWJF funding for studying tobacco cessation/control in HMOs.  She is listed in the RWJF media guide for her project to examine the cost-effectiveness for HMOs to cover the cost of cessation programs (“Impact of Co-Payments on Use of Smoking Cessation Services in an HMO”).
 
*'''Davis, Ron'''*
 
*'''Davis, Ron'''*
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:He acknowledges that he and the AMA get funding from the pharmaceutical industry, specifically from makers of cessation products.  Houston also sat on the RWJF-funded “Koop/Kessler” Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health.
 
:He acknowledges that he and the AMA get funding from the pharmaceutical industry, specifically from makers of cessation products.  Houston also sat on the RWJF-funded “Koop/Kessler” Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health.
 
*'''Hughes, John'''
 
*'''Hughes, John'''
:Prof. of psychiatry, psychology and family practice, University of Vermont, Dept. of Psychiatry.  Cessation (''Columbia Journalism Review'' media handbook says his specialty is “nicotine withdrawal, drug therapies and patches to help people quit smoking”). Member of and spokesman for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT). President, Association for the Treatment of Tobacco Use and Dependence (2009- ) which apparently believes the mere "use" of tobacco requires "treatment." 
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:Prof. of psychiatry, psychology and family practice, University of Vermont, Dept. of Psychiatry.  Cessation (''Columbia Journalism Review'' media handbook says his specialty is “nicotine withdrawal, drug therapies and patches to help people quit smoking”). Member of and spokesman for the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT).
 
 
:In [http://www.ereleases.com/pr/2009-ATTUD.pdf a 2009 letter to the FDA] he urged it to ban electronic cigarettes because smokers who  attempt to use them to quit "may become frustrated" and stop trying and therefore "will die."  Or, in other words, implying that e-cigs kill. Instead, he recommends that smokers use only pharmaceutical products. By an eerie coincidence (nothing to see here; please move on), Dr. Hughes is the recipient of research grants from Pfizer Pharmaceuticals  (Chantix et al), Sanofi-Synthelabo Pharmaceuticals (actively developing quit-smoking drugs), as well as  honoraria from Warner Pharmaceuticals, McNeil and Nabi. 
 
 
 
:For some strange reason he doesn't seem to worry that the 90 to 99.2% failure rate of his favored products might cause smokers to become frustrated and die. It is also odd that he expresses a "fear that naive children can be exposed to" e-cigs "as a gateway tobacco product" while neglecting to voice any concern about [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200918/Boy-14-collapses-overdosing-nicotine-chewing-gum-handed-school.html children poisoning themselves] with the NicoGummyPatchyProducts he favors. (General information based on [http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2012/05/ucsd-researchers-call-attention-to.html a May 1st article by Dr. Michael Siegel] at tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com)
 
 
*'''Hurt, Richard'''
 
*'''Hurt, Richard'''
 
:Director, Nicotine Dependence Center, and Nicotine Research Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Cessation.
 
:Director, Nicotine Dependence Center, and Nicotine Research Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Cessation.
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:Senior Epidemiologist, PhD, MS, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Epidemiology and Population Health.
 
:Senior Epidemiologist, PhD, MS, Albert Einstein College of Medicine Department of Epidemiology and Population Health.
  
:Geoffrey C. Kabat has been highly critical of the environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)/secondhand smoke/passive smoking pseudo-science. [http://www.olivernorvell.com/EnstromKabat03.pdf A large study] on ETS which he performed together with James E. Enstrom reported results distasteful to the prohibitionists. Many orthodox Tobacco Control health professionals have [http://www.epi-perspectives.com/content/pdf/1742-5573-4-11.pdf heaped condemnation] on Enstrom and on Kabat in result. Kabat in turn has strenuously protested the close-minded, persecutorial unfairness of his colleagues toward himself and toward other epidemiologists who deviate from strict Tobacco Control dogma in terms of statistical interpretations.  
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:Geoffrey C. Kabat has been highly critical of the environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)/secondhand smoke/passive smoking pseudo-science. [http://www.olivernorvell.com/EnstromKabat03.pdf A large study] on ETS which he performed together with James E. Enstrom reported results distasteful to the prohibitionists. Many orthodox Tobacco Control health professionals have [http://www.epi-perspectives.com/content/pdf/1742-5573-4-11.pdf heaped condemnation] on Enstrom and on Kabat in result. Kabat in turn has strenuously protested the close-minded, persecutorial unfairness of his colleagues toward himself and toward other epidemiologists who deviate from strict Tobacco Control dogma in terms of statistical interpretations. Nevertheless, and despite having expressed an opinion that smokers “aren’t evil”, Kabat continues to adhere to the strict orthodoxy of Tobacco Control in terms of society. He contends that, based on his own sense of aesthetics, Tobacco Control’s ''inherently and intentionally'' stigmatizing smoking bans are good. He sees no unfairness whatsoever in universally denying to smokers, as a matter of criminal law, any social ''milieux'' in which they could be accommodated, as and amongst friends, with dignity and respect. Tobacco Control’s edict that its strict orthodoxy must be imposed upon everyone, everywhere, without exception, does not strike Doctor Kabat as being close-minded when it comes to the matter of socially governing law; or anyway, when it comes to law which persecutes smokers, and does not persecute non-smokers such as Geoffrey Kabat or his personal circle of friends. [http://www.olivernorvell.com/KabatSmokingBans.pdf As he has written on the subject]: “Whatever one thinks about the lethality of environmental tobacco smoke, it appears to me to be an enormous step in the direction of a civilized society to not have to stand on line in a poorly-ventilated post office behind someone puffing on a cigarette or cigar. Nevertheless, I believe it was a mistake for authorities to feel they had to justify smoking restrictions based on the flimsy science linking ETS to fatal diseases. ... But this approach would not have had the legal clout that stating ETS causes lung cancer has. ... I completely agree with Professor [Luiz Antonio de] Castro-Santos that smokers, who are now a beleaguered minority, should not be stigmatized. ... But, by the same token, I am not inclined to bemoan the loss of this particular practice – as much as it contributed to the ''ambience'' of Paris cafés.”
 
 
:Nevertheless, and despite having expressed an opinion that smokers “aren’t evil”, Kabat continues to adhere to the strict orthodoxy of Tobacco Control in terms of society. He contends that, based on his own sense of aesthetics, Tobacco Control’s ''inherently and intentionally'' stigmatizing smoking bans are good. He sees no unfairness whatsoever in universally denying to smokers, as a matter of criminal law, any social ''milieux'' in which they could be accommodated, as and amongst friends, with dignity and respect. Tobacco Control’s edict that its strict orthodoxy must be imposed upon everyone, everywhere, without exception, does not strike Doctor Kabat as being close-minded when it comes to the matter of socially governing law; or anyway, when it comes to law which persecutes smokers, and does not persecute non-smokers such as Geoffrey Kabat or his personal circle of friends.
 
 
 
:[http://www.olivernorvell.com/KabatSmokingBans.pdf As he has written on the subject]: “Whatever one thinks about the lethality of environmental tobacco smoke, it appears to me to be an enormous step in the direction of a civilized society to not have to stand on line in a poorly-ventilated post office behind someone puffing on a cigarette or cigar. Nevertheless, I believe it was a mistake for authorities to feel they had to justify smoking restrictions based on the flimsy science linking ETS to fatal diseases.... I completely agree with Professor [Luiz Antonio de] Castro-Santos that smokers, who are now a beleaguered minority, should not be stigmatized. ... But, by the same token, I am not inclined to bemoan the loss of this particular practice – as much as it contributed to the ''ambience'' of Paris cafés.”
 
 
 
 
*'''Kauffman, Nancy, RN'''*
 
*'''Kauffman, Nancy, RN'''*
 
:Vice-President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Represented the RWJF on the federal Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health beginning in 1995.  Also assisted with SCARCnet.
 
:Vice-President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Represented the RWJF on the federal Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health beginning in 1995.  Also assisted with SCARCnet.
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*'''Pope, Gregory'''*
 
*'''Pope, Gregory'''*
 
:Center for Health Economics Research, Inc., Waltham, MA.  Listed in RWJF media guide for “Study of the Adoption and Economic Effects of Smoke-free Restaurant Ordinances in Massachusetts.”  Results were expected in early 1997.
 
:Center for Health Economics Research, Inc., Waltham, MA.  Listed in RWJF media guide for “Study of the Adoption and Economic Effects of Smoke-free Restaurant Ordinances in Massachusetts.”  Results were expected in early 1997.
*'''Proctor, Robert'''
 
:The historian Robert N Proctor, author of The Nazi War on Cancer, has regularly argued that, despite their more egregious errors, the Nazis were in fact capable of performing very good scientific work. And on several occasions he has cited the example of the V2 rocket. In 2008, he wrote an article in 'Tobacco Control' titled [http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/17/5/289.extract?etoc 'On playing the Nazi card'].
 
:Robert Proctor clearly wishes to associate Nazi antismoking research with the former kind of respectable science. But into which category does it really fall? Adolf Hitler ignored and scorned the V2 rocket for an entire decade, but he put 100,000 Reichsmarks of his own money into The Scientific Institute for the Research into the Hazards of Tobacco, an institute whose very name indicates clearly its prejudicial intent, as did the telegram from Hitler it received at its [http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/1/35.full inauguration]: "I send my best wishes for your work which will liberate mankind from one of its most dangerous poisons". The Nazi assault on tobacco was part and parcel of its programme to rid German society of such 'poisons', of which the Jews were one, and tobacco was another. 
 
 
*'''Rabin, Robert'''*
 
*'''Rabin, Robert'''*
 
:Professor of law at Stanford University Law School.  Served as Senior Consultant for RWJF’s “Tobacco and substance abuse policy program.”
 
:Professor of law at Stanford University Law School.  Served as Senior Consultant for RWJF’s “Tobacco and substance abuse policy program.”
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:It should be noted however that many in the Free Choice community are still quite critical of Siegel's stance in a number of areas. Some feel, and have argued strongly, that Siegel's criticisms of some anti-smoker policies may simply represent a tactical view designed to support "effective" anti-smoking policies rather than representing any real philosophical criticism of anti-smoking goals.  
 
:It should be noted however that many in the Free Choice community are still quite critical of Siegel's stance in a number of areas. Some feel, and have argued strongly, that Siegel's criticisms of some anti-smoker policies may simply represent a tactical view designed to support "effective" anti-smoking policies rather than representing any real philosophical criticism of anti-smoking goals.  
 
:Siegel is correct that a popular backlash against Tobacco Control has long been forming and is rapidly growing. His prescription for tactical adjustment of TC policies (which some have compared to Mikhail Gorbachev's 1980s policy of attempting preservation of Communism in the USSR through institution of moderate reform) is likely to fail to preserve the core of more basic Tobacco Control objectives from ultimate destruction by the excesses of the extremists.  Those he has become critical of generally seek total denormalization and  prohibition despite any human costs involved.
 
:Siegel is correct that a popular backlash against Tobacco Control has long been forming and is rapidly growing. His prescription for tactical adjustment of TC policies (which some have compared to Mikhail Gorbachev's 1980s policy of attempting preservation of Communism in the USSR through institution of moderate reform) is likely to fail to preserve the core of more basic Tobacco Control objectives from ultimate destruction by the excesses of the extremists.  Those he has become critical of generally seek total denormalization and  prohibition despite any human costs involved.
*'''Sirchia, Girolamo'''
 
:Italian Minister of Health from June 2001 to April 2005 and known for the Italian smoking ban (Sirchia law) in all indoor public places.  As reported in [http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy/crime/ex-health-minister-sirchia-convicted-graft Italy Mag ] he was convicted to three years in jail and was banned from holding public office for five years for graft. 
 
 
*'''Sitzer, Maxine'''
 
*'''Sitzer, Maxine'''
 
:Prof. Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine.  Committee Chair, Society of Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (Scientific Liaison: Public Policy Council).
 
:Prof. Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine.  Committee Chair, Society of Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (Scientific Liaison: Public Policy Council).

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