rendezvous

Georgina Lovell

Rendez-vous 151
February 18, 2003

Georgina is the author of You are the target and the class curriculum Project Moving Target
Vancouver, British Columbia

Thank you Georgina for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?

Georgina Lovell: My casual interest in tobacco industry fraud became more structured following Workers Compensation Board hearings in British Columbia where I presented a five-page brief in support of proposed smoke-free workplaces.

Mike Pertschuk

Rendez-vous 120
Tuesday, December 4 2001

Mike is the author of "Smoke in Their Eyes, Lessons in Movement Leadership from the Tobacco Wars" and he is co-director of the Advocacy Institute
Washington DC, USA

Thank you Mike for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself ?

Starting in 1962, following the publication in Great Britain of the Royal college of Physicians report indicting tobacco in death and disease - the first such national study, I had been an active advocate for tobacco control and other public health and consumer protection regulation, first, as counsel to the consumer protection-minded Democratic leadership of the Senate Commerce Committee, then, as a Democratic Commissioner and Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission.

Stephen Sugarman

Rendez-vous 119
Friday, November 30 2001

Stephen is co-editor of "Regulating Tobacco" and
Law professor at the University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, California, USA

Thank you Stephen for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself ?

Stephen Sugarman: I am a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, where I have taught for 30 years. I teach about personal injury law and in our social justice program.. In 1989, Bob Rabin from Stanford Law School and I put together a team of California scholars to study various sociological, public health, political, and legal issues concerning smoking.

Peter Jacobson

Rendez-vous 114
Monday, November 12 2001

Thank you Peter for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself ?

My name is Peter Jacobson and I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Management and Policy at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. About 10 years ago, I became interested in tobacco control research, largely because of the health toll from cigarette smoking. My first project dealt with the political evolution of tobacco control laws.

Dan Romer

Rendez-vous 109
Monday, August 13 2001

Thank you Dan for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself ?

I am Research Director of the Institute for Adolescent Risk Communication at
the Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania. I am a social psychologist who studies adolescent risk behavior with particular interest in mass media influences. Tobacco use is a long-standing concern among health researchers because it affects so many people and is the leading preventable cause of premature death in this country.

David Courtwright

Rendez-vous 99
Monday, May 14 , 2001

David is the author of Forces of Habit : Drugs and the Making of the Modern World.
He is Professor of History at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Thank you David for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?

Tenure has its uses. About ten years ago I decided that I might as well stick my neck out and write big, controversial, theme-driven books. This one, Forces of Habit, is a world history of psychoactive commerce over the past five centuries. It tells the story of the global psychoactive revolution-how people everywhere acquired progressively more potent means of altering their ordinary waking consciousness-and who profited from it.

Tara Parker-Pope

Rendez-vous 94
Thursday, March 22 , 2001

Tara is the author of Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke  (The New Press) New York , NY , USA

Thank you Tara for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?

I've worked for the Wall Street Journal for eight years, with most of that time spent covering consumer products, marketing and advertising. I first began writing about tobacco during a stint in our London bureau. There I followed corporate news for what was then BAT PLC and also wrote about changes in European smoking habits and the fascinating and effective advertising strategies of tobacco companies under the more onerous advertising standards of the U.K.

Dan Zegart

RENDEZ-VOUS 71
Wednesday, July 19, 2000

Dan is the author of Civil Warriors , the Legal Siege on the Tobacco Industry, published by Delacorte Press/Random House

Thank you Dan for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?

I was a daily newspaper reporter for ten years, but for ten years prior to that, I was a musician, playing in rock bands and eking out a living as a carpenter.

I was motivated to write the book by my own experience with cigarettes - - and a family tragedy.

David Pollock

Saturday, December 10  1999

David is the author of "Denial and Delay--The political history of smoking and health, 1951-1964 , Scientists, Government and Industry as seen in the papers at the Public Records Office (in Great Britain)". Thank you for taking the time to be with us and may I ask you to introduce yourself?

Yes - first: thank you for the invitation! I came into tobacco control at the age of 48, when I was made redundant after a 25-year career in the coal industry and applied for the post of director of Action on Smoking and Health (UK) and was appointed.

I was Director from 1991 to 1994 and I remain a member of the ASH advisory council.

Mike Males

Wednesday December 8, 1999

Thank you Mike for accepting our rendez-vous.  May I ask you to introduce yourself ?

I HAVE A Ph.D. IN SOCIAL ECOLOGY FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE. I HAVE WRITTEN THREE BOOKS ON YOUTHS, "FRAMING YOUTH: 10 MYTHS ABOUT THE NEXT GENERATION,"
"THE SCAPEGOAT GENERATION: AMERICA'S WAR ON ADOLESCENTS,"
AND THE LATEST, "SMOKED, why Joe Camel is still smiling", ALL BY COMMON COURAGE PRESS.