rendezvous

Astrid Berg

Rendez-vous 123
Thursday December 27 2001

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

I am the Executive Director for the American Lung Association of Washington, and have held this position for 12 years. One of the Lung Association's primary goals in assuring lung health for the people of Washington is reducing tobacco use. Our emphasis is on reducing smoking initiation among kids. The Association's long-standing mission is what led me to involvement in tobacco control.

Fernand Turcotte

Rendez-vous 122
Friday, December 21 2001

Fernand is Head of the department of social and preventive medicine Faculté de médecine, Université Laval
Québec, Québec, Canada

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

Fernand Turcotte: I am a medical specialist in preventive medicine and public health. I have been trained at the Université de Montréal, and Harvard University. I have joined the medical faculty of Université Laval in 1971, teaching preventive medicine, occupational health and public health. I am actively involved in tobacco control since 1979, when I became head of the department of social and preventive medicine.

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.