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OTHER ALERTS: Plug in your zip code, and see the fine alert page at www.smokescreen.org
  • 05/05/97 Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids' Skoal Roar Tour Smoke Alarm complete with managers' contact information. August 10, 1996
  • FDA Final Rules Alert
  • Presidential Conventions and Tobacco Money

    August 1, 1996:

  • Study Finds NYC's Smoke-Free Air Act Has Not Hurt Restaurant Business
  • Dole Turns National Attention to Tobacco Money in Politics
  • ScarcNet's Mother Jones "Tobacco Strikes Back" Alert
  • Write Wendy's CEO James Near, who plans to continue his "Everybody Smokes" policy. Or call 800-948-8488.. Call Pizza Hut, which has a smilar policy, at 800-948-8488.

  • World No-Tobacco Day 1996 Events

  • Fort Wayne, IN. Names and photos of tobacco victims will be displayed on the 24-foot-long x 6-foot tall wall which will be on display at Faith United Methodist Church, 207 E. Dewald St. The 17-state project is organized by the American Stop Smoking Intervention Study. Names and/or photos (which cannot be returned) to ASSIST, 614 Berry St., Fort Wayne, IN 46802. 425-3154
  • Croatia Airlines will ban smoking on all its flights, in line with a 1992 WHO resolution.
  • Tell ABC to air Tobacco Under Fire Write:
    Roone Arledge
    President, ABC News
    47 West 66th Street
    New York, NY 10023

  • Scarc Alert on Philip Morris' Action Against Access Program
    Other ScarcNet Alerts: (excellent encapsulizations of the issues)
    • 60 Minutes Alert
    • Youth Smoking Alert
    • What YOU can do about Tobacco PAC Money's influence on legislators
  • Canadian Alert Alerts continue from Dr. Terry Polevoy.
  • HR994--`Regulatory Sunset and Review Act of 1995'
    has been withdrawn for now. It is possible it will reach the floor as soon as April. You may still contact your representative (or here).
    Thanks to all who did. I'm sure it made a difference.
  • Brown & Williamson issued a 500-page smear of Dr. Jeffrey Wigand. You can let B&W know what you and millions of other Americans think.

    Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co.
    800-341-5211

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