BIG NAMES IN THE ANTI-MOVEMENT

STANTON GLANTZ

Professor, UC San Francisco, bastion of the politically correct. Makes his living by creating and being funded for anti-smoker studies, the more defamatory, the better. Funded by both taxpayer dollars and the charity cartel, including Big Drugs, his annual take this year from the MSA has been decreased to $15 million. Has been in trouble for diddling with the data on his studies, but with the University backing him, nothing came of it.

Famous saying: The war on tobacco "helps people like me pay our mortgages" and "we've got the bastards on the run!"

JAMES REPACE

Formerly employed with the Environmental Protection Agency, whom he sued saying their new building made him sick. Repace worked mostly from his home and wore a gas mask to work when it was necessary for him to appear in person. He also sued OSHA for failure to implement a shs policy; he lost. He now calls himself a "Secondhand Smoke Consultant" and is for hire by anti-smoker groups across the country.

Famous saying: "It would take tornado-force winds of 300 mph to clear smoke from a room!"

JOHN BANZHAF

Attorney and founder of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Johnson&Johnson, makers of Nicotrol) and selling kits showing how to remove custody of children from smokers, how to get smokers fired from jobs, how to get smokers kicked out of their homes.

Famous sayings: "Nice restaurant you have here; hate to see something bad happen to it" and "If you can smell it, it's killing you."

RICHARD DAYNARD

In 1995, Richard Daynard received a grant from the National Cancer Institute (taxpayer money) for "research" into how the US could bilk the tobacco industry. His Tobacco Products Liability Project included the same lawyers who, like Daynard himself, made gazillions of dollars from the lawsuits. Not only has Daynard made a LOT of money already, he has sued for a share of the state settlement billions.

Even with no expertise in engineering and ventilation, Daynard managed to get himself appointed to a position as a voting member of ASHRAE, the engineering group that sets standards for air conditioning, heating, ventilation, etc. Daynard was instrumental in getting ASHRAE to re-write its standard that suggested that with proper ventilation, safe indoor air quality standards could be met even if a certain level of smoking was permitted to eliminate any suggestion that smoking might be permissible under any circumstances. A note from Daynard brags that "This culminates a 13-year effort on my part to get the 1989 language...changed. I was a member of the ASHRAE committee that proposed the change."

C. EVERETT KOOP

Most famous for changing the definition of "addiction" to include nicotine. The Surgeon General doesn't actually write the reports published in his name, of course. All the actual work is done by others in his employ. One of the prime movers on Koop's reports was Don Shopland of the NCI's Smoking and Tobacco Control Program. Directing the S.G. reports and acting as a nerve center for the many federal bureaus (there are more than 81 different offices, bureaus and programs in the federal Public Health Service alone) is the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health, which includes representatives from various federal offices as well as some from the private sector (AMA, American Cancer Society, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and others). Isn't it convenient that the ACS (which gets much of its funding for tobacco control) and RWJF (which gets nearly all its billions of dollars from Johnson & Johnson, makers of Nicotrol) are part of the planning and execution of the federal tobacco control effort?

There are many others, of course, but you'll see these few crop up whenever and wherever another anti-smoking  "study" is touted, another smoking ban is proposed, another outrageous tax is making its way through Congress...these are the shapers of the anti-smoker jihad.