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.
