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Intro: June 7-8, 2008 in Washington, DC, USA
writing contest
Sponsored by the
National Center for Nonsmokers' Rights and Law Professor John Banzhaf . . .
■ Features presentations and discussions of new legal and law-related actions to protect nonsmokers' rights
■ There are a limited number of $1000 travel grants to attend -- Preference will be given to early applicants
■ Will include an introduction to three (3) powerful but often overlooked weapons to protect nonsmokers:
● The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control [FCTC], the world's first antismoking and nonsmokers' rights treaty
● The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), which can provide protection for very sensitive nonsmokers
● The Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities and its Optional Protocol, an even newer international treaty
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