Thank you Helen for accepting our rendez-vous.
May I ask you to introduce yourself?
I am the recently appointed Executive Director of
The Quit Group, which is an incorporated charitable trust set up to
carry out programs aimed at reducing smoking in New Zealand. We are
funded by the Government to run several different programs:
Thank you Jon for accepting our rendez-vous.
May I ask you to introduce yourself?
I'm a software engineer in California. I became
involved in tobacco control in 1992 as a member of a local smokefree
coalition. We were trying to get a smokefree ordinance in our
community. We did surveys, and there was strong support from both
business owners and the public. We also had a clear health case for it.
Thank you Elizabeth for accepting our rendez-vous.
May I ask you to introduce yourself?
Thank you for this opportunity, Philipe. I am a
faculty member with the Center for Community-Based Research at
Dana-Farber Cancer Center and Assistant Professor with the Department
of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health.
This interview would not have been possible without the help of Matthew Le Veque.
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November 16, 2000
Debi had a laryngectomy due to her smoking. She gave her testimony
in a 1997 TV ad for the California's Department of Health campaign.
This ad, where she smokes through her stoma is considered one of the
most effective to get the public and especially the teen's attention.
It has also been aired in the states of Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington,
Indiana and in Canada. Two new TV ads with Debi are part of new media
campaign that started November 2d in California.
Thank you Anna for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?
My introduction to Big Tobacco's global expansion began
in the summer of 1993, when I landed in San Salvador, El Salvador and
immediately came face-to-face with a gigantic Marlboro Man billboard.
During a seven month study-abroad in Senegal two and a half years
later, I was appalled at the omnipresence of cigarette advertising, and
in particular, the ways in which tobacco corporations sought to link
smoking with the mythic "American dream."
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November 1, 2000
Thank you Ross for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?
My name is Ross Hammond, and I am an independent
consultant based in San Francisco. I have a Masters in Applied
Economics from American University. For the past year I have been doing
a lot of work with the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids on the Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control and also worked on the 11th World
Conference, writing fact sheets and helping to organize some of the
plenaries. I have been in tobacco control for a little over 3 years.
Nota: I met with Witold Zatonski during the 11th world
conference on Tobacco or Health in Chicago. A slightly different
version of this interview will be published in the daily journal of the
conference (in the post-conference issue).
Thank you Witold for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?
I am a physician and a professor of cancer
epidemiology in Varsaw where I am head of the Department of
Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention with the Maria Sklodowska-Curie
Memorial Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology.
Nota: I met with Judith Mackay during the 11th world conference
on Tobacco or Health in Chicago. A slightly different version of this
interview was published in the daily journal of the conference (in the
August 11th issue). We have had one previous rendez-vous with Judith on
February 12, 1999. Thank you Judith for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?
Judith Mackay : I have lived in Hong Kong since 1967, initially working
as a hospital physician in university and government hospitals. In
1984 I left hospital medicine to concentrate on preventive rather than
curative health, in particular tobacco control.
Nota: I met with Mahamane Cisse during the 11th world
conference on Tobacco or Health in Chicago. A slightly different
version of this interview was published in the daily journal of the
conference (in the August 10th issue).
Thank you Mahamane for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?
I am an attorney in Bamako (Mali) and the
President of a young non-governmental anti-tobacco organization, SOS
Tabagisme. I recently filed two lawsuits against the local BAT
subsidiary for illegal advertising.
Nota: I met with Jim Martin, Throat Cancer survivor, volunteer public speaker with SAVE Survivors Empowerment Program, North Carolina Gasp, Wilmington ,
during the 11th world conference on
Tobacco or Health in Chicago. A slightly different version of this
interview was published in the daily journal of the conference (in the
August 9th issue).
Thank you Jim for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?
Two years ago, in April 1998 I had my larynx box taken
out. After the surgery I felt lonely, depressed, rejected. My wife
shook me up : I learned how to speak with my stomach.
Debi had a laryngectomy due to her smoking. She gave her testimony
in a 1997 TV ad for the California's Department of Health campaign.
This ad, where she smokes through her stoma is considered one of the
most effective to get the public and especially the teen's attention.
It has also been aired in the states of Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington,
Indiana and in Canada. Two new TV ads with Debi are part of new media
campaign that started November 2d in California.
My name is Ross Hammond, and I am an independent
consultant based in San Francisco. I have a Masters in Applied
Economics from American University. For the past year I have been doing
a lot of work with the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids on the Framework
Convention on Tobacco Control and also worked on the 11th World
Conference, writing fact sheets and helping to organize some of the
plenaries. I have been in tobacco control for a little over 3 years. 
Nota: I met with Witold Zatonski during the 11th world
conference on Tobacco or Health in Chicago. A slightly different
version of this interview will be published in the daily journal of the
conference (in the post-conference issue).
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