Stanton Glantz
Stanton Glantz
Stanton Arnold Glantz, Ph.D.is an American professor, author, and leading tobacco control activist. Glantz is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, the American Legacy Foundation Distinguished Professor of Tobacco Control, and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San FranciscoSchool of Medicine. Glantz's research focuses on the health effects of tobacco smoking. Often called the "Ralph Nader of the anti-tobacco movement," Glantz is an activist for nonsmokers' rights and an...
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It's pretty simple. These laws are very bad for the cigarette companies, because they create an environment for people to quit if they want to.
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I think this is the beginning of the unraveling of several indictments.
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It is biased too heavily toward the private sector.
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It doesn't take much to cause big effects. If you already have compromised coronary circulation and go into a smoky environment, there is a substantial increase in your risk of an acute event.
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What Phillip Morris is doing here is a tremendous disservice to parents and to infants because it's increasing the risk infants will die.
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We found the original draft of the scientific paper, which said, 'secondhand smoke increases the risk of sudden infant death,' in Phillip Morris's corporate files along with their suggestions to Sullivan to change it.
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entirely free to publish his review without including our comments and without restriction.
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This report is forcing reconsideration of this issue by health officials all over the world.
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would cut movie smoking's effect on kids in half, saving 50,000 lives a year in the U.S. alone.
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There are plenty of people in California government who are running agencies that are larger and more complex than the University of California who are not getting ridiculously astronomical salaries.
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There are more studies, the risk estimates are more consistently elevated, and they're higher than they were for lung cancer. Plus, there's all these toxicology studies and molecular biology they didn't have back then.
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Secondhand smoke is even worse than we thought. It increases the risk for an acute coronary event like a heart attack or long-term development of atherosclerosis.
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This is a seminal, international document. It's impossible to underestimate what a big deal this is.
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If people are serious about breast cancer, they have to deal with secondhand smoke. That's what this is all about.