Jump to full article: AP, 2006-05-03
Author: Associated Press
Intro: Some registered nurses from across the country has become Reynolds American Tobacco shareholders so they can speak out about the tobacco-related problems they see in their work.
"The Nightingales" plan to address the C-E-O of Reynolds American at the company's annual shareholders meeting on May third.
A statement from the group says it plans to ask the company to end all active marketing and promotion of cigarettes. It's a move they say will protect children, save lives, generate goodwill for the company and demonstrate genuine corporate responsibility.
Ellen Hahn, a registered nurse and director of the Kentucky Center for Smoke Free Policy says it's time to stop encouraging addiction.
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