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What They Say About ASH

READER'S DIGEST
The tobacco institute's most active opposition has its headquarters within four blocks of the institute's plush digs. If you want to get involved in anti-smoking efforts, contact ASH

NEW YORK TIMES
At the forefront of this campaign [to protect nonsmoking passengers] is a nonprofit organization called Action on Smoking and Health

THE PASSIONATE NONSMOKERS' BILL OF RIGHTS
If there's one group the tobacco industry fears more than any other, it's ASH. Action on Smoking and Health, the foremost smoking and health organization in the country

READER'S DIGEST
John F Banzhaf III, The Man Behind the Ban on Cigarette Commercials

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
It is encouraging that [ASH] has been able to move with such effectiveness against the powerful tobacco industry

TIME MAGAZINE
The victory [forcing TV stations to air free antismoking messages] prompted Banzhaf to quit his New York law firm and devote his time to ASH

NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
A potentially effective weapon in the public interest may exist in [ASH]

THE SUPERLAWYERS
Such individuals as Banzhaf have the potential to tilt the balance of power in Washington law

BOSTON GLOBE
The industry was about to meet one of the most effective antismoking activists ever. Thus was born the first organization in the US  dedicated solely to fighting tobacco companies

1989 SURGEON GENERAL'S REPORT
[ASH] played a major role in establishing the legal concept of the right of nonsmokers to be free from exposure to tobacco smoke.  [ASH] serves as the legal action arm of the antismoking community

REGARDIE'S MAGAZINE
Banzhaf may be to Camels what Ralph Nader was to Corvairs. He was instrumental in getting the nation's airlines to ban smoking on most domestic flights. He's the bane of the tobacco industry

WASHINGTON STAR
Where There's Smoke There's Banzhaf & Co. . . The man whose single-handed legal attacks put anti-cigarette commercials on television

THE POLITICS OF CANCER
The rights of the nonsmoker to breathe air unpolluted by tobacco smoke have been vigorously asserted recently by a number of public interest groups created especially for this purpose. . . .  Prominent among these is the Washington-based Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).

WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE
The nongovernmental organization leading the antismoking campaign in the United States.

 

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Raising Smoking as an Issue in Child Custody Disputes
Fighting Smoking in Condos and Apartments 
File Complaints Against Smoking
The Deadly Toxins in Tobacco Smoke
The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke
Govt. Rpt. on Secondhand Smoke
Tobacco Class-Action Law Suits, and How You Can Participate 
Sue-Big-Tobacco List of Anti-tobacco Lawyers
Tobacco Multistate
Settlement

Do A Survey, Win a Free Prize
Smoking Facts & Statistics
Children and Smoking

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ASH, founded in 1968, is the national legal-action antismoking and nonsmokers' rights organization which helped ban cigarette commercials, started the modern nonsmokers' rights movement, pioneered using legal action against smoking, developed novel legal theories to protect children from tobacco smoke at home and in cars, get lower health insurance rates for nonsmokers, fought tobacco subsidies, and much much more.

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