Stanton Glantz, One the Top 100 Newsmakers of 1995, Unmasks the Tobacco Industry Cover-up of the Dangers of Smoking at Sarah Lawrence
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Stanton Glantz, One the Top 100 Newsmakers of 1995,
Unmasks the Tobacco Industry Cover-up of the Dangers of Smoking
Bronxville, N.Y.&emdash; Stanton A. Glantz is the co-author of "The Cigarette Papers," (University of California Press, 1996) described as "one of the most significant public health publications on tobacco published in the last forty years." Dr. Glantz, professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco, talks on the tobacco industry cover-up of the dangers of smoking on Tuesday, February 13, 1997 at 6 p.m. in Reisinger Hall at Sarah Lawrence College.
Two years ago, an anonymous source, known only as "Mr. Butts," FedExed Dr. Glantz more than 8,000 pages of insider documentation from America's third largest tobacco company, Brown & Williamson. "The Cigarette Papers," an analysis of these documents which Dr. Glantz co-authored with John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes, with a foreword by C. Everett Koop, exposes the tobacco industry's refusal to share publicly its evidence of the addictive nature and health risks of smoking. Executive Vice President of the American Medical Association James S. Todd says of the book, "The evidence of manipulation and deception by tobacco companies to dupe the American public is overwhelming."
In 1995, "Newsweek" named Dr. Glantz one of the 100 newsmakers of the year. He holds a B.S. from the University of Cincinnati and an M.Sci. and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is the author of numerous articles on smoking, tobacco, and cardiology. He is also the author of another book, "Tobacco: Biology and Politics," and was the associate producer of the award-winning film "Secondhand Smoke."
Sarah Lawrence College, just north of New York City, is ranked in the top thirty national liberal arts colleges (U.S. News and World Report, America's Best Colleges, 1997) and has the smallest student/faculty ratio in the country. Sarah Lawrence offers an intensive liberal arts education in the tradition of the Oxford and Cambridge tutorial system to nearly 1,000 undergraduate students. The College also offers graduate degree programs in the Art of Teaching, Child Development, Dance, Health Advocacy, Human Genetics, Theatre, Women's History, and Writing. Dr. Glantz's talk is sponsored by the Sarah Lawrence College Office of Multicultural Affairs and is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Office of College Events at (914) 395-2411.
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