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Smokers Unfazed by 10 cent Tobacco Tax Hike Threat
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, June 10, 2010
Motivational talks to youth and adults
at Sheppard Pratt Hospital, Baltimore
WBAL NBC TV , WABC ABC TV
Baltimore, MD, April 29, 2010
General Electric Bans Smoking Worldwide
CNBC, The Call, March 5, 2010
A Crusade to Snuff Out Smoking
R.J. Reynolds heir tries to undo legacy of damage
Chicago Tribune, February 24, 2010
Grandson of tobacco empire speaks out against legacy
Chicago Tribune, Evanston, IL, February 23, 2010
Gossip Girl Star, 15, Criticized for Smoking
US Magazine,
February 1, 2010
Smoker's Stress
MSN.com
Reynolds Scion Tells Kids the Truth about Tobacco
Blue Planet, Green Living, December 7, 2009
A detailed description of Patrick Reynolds'
motivational talks to teens.
Jay Thomas Show
Sirius Radio, November 30, 2009
Should smoking be made illegal?
MSNBC, Host: Dr. Nancy Snyderman
October 15, 2009, 12:15pm EST
Guest: Patrick Reynolds
Obama Signs Bill for FDA Regulation of Tobacco
Various outlets,
Fox News Channel - Obama Signs Bill for FDA Regulation,
KCBS TV Los Angeles,
Photo History of the RJ Reynolds Family (text in Russian)
The Grandson Patrick Reynolds' Anti-Smoking Crusade
Karavan Stories / 7 Days Magazine, Moscow, Russia
June, 2009
(6.7 MB or 55MB file in Acrobat)
Cigarette Makers Lose Appeal in Landmark Case
Federal government's suit will be appealed to Supreme Court
CNN Radio Network May 22, 2009
RJ Reynolds' grandson helps launch
Greek Health Ministry's Anti-Smoking Campaign
Athens, Greece, April 28, 2009 - May 2, 2009
SKAI-TV, To Vima Magazine, Ta Nea, Kathimerini Sunday Magazine , Kathimerini News, The Economist, Vita Magazine, Eleftheroptypia, MediaVoi, Naftemporiki, Iatronet, Top98FM, Costas, AnaWeb
KATHAMERINI wire service: The speech by Patrick Reynolds caused a sensation at the conference. He has been involved in an anti-smoking campaign in the US for decades.
Da Nea (The News): ...Besides what he has done in the US, Patrick Reynolds is now starting an international campaign. He hopes his visit to Greece will open doors to go to China, Russia, Turkey, the Middle East, and other countries where smoking rates are high.
The two videos below aired on 14 global
satellite feeds and 22 cable networks (IPTV
Cable), and are each subtitled in 16 languages,
through Supreme Master TV
The Truth About Tobacco
Patrick Reynolds' live talk to teens
June, 2009 - 36 minutes
Interview with Patrick Reynolds
May, 2009
61 Cent Federal Tobacco Tax Starts Today
Associated Press Broadcast Radio,
CBS Radio Network, National Public Radio, Times Daily
April 1, 2009
Smoking Laws Spreading, FDA Will
Regulate Tobacco
Radio France Internationale
Libération, Marianne
March 16, 2009
Secondhand smoke a downer for mood as well as lungs
USA Today, March 6, 2009
New electronic cigarette substitute
Laguna Beach (CA) Independent
February 13, 2009
Supreme Court OK's Lawsuits
Against Claims
&Light
AP Broadcast Briefs, Public Radio Los Angeles
December 15, 2008
Obama would show leadership to smokers if he quits
Associate Press, December 8th, 2008
Great American Smokeout Day
November 20, 2008
CBS Radio News, ABC 6 TV WJBF, Sirius Radio
WGST Talk Radio Atlanta, Augusta (GA) Chronicle
TradingMarkets.com, WAGT NBC TV
Milton(GA)Herald, Augusta Chronicle follow-up
Augusta Chronicle Editorial
R.J. Reynolds’ grandson warns students
about the danger of Tobacco addiction
The Observer (front page)
La Grande OR, October 21, 2008
Thank You for Not Smoking
The Palm Beach Post (FL), April 19, 2008
"To date, 24 states have already passed laws banning smoking from all bars and restaurants statewide, and 22 of them did so in the last six years," said Patrick Reynolds, president of The Foundation for a Smokefree America, a nonprofit group founded in 1989. "We are at the tipping point now."
RJ Reynolds' Grandson Motivates Youth in Ashland
Ashland (OH) Times Gazette, April 8, 2008
"If I could give you one message today, it would be that cigarettes are addicting. Once you start, it's almost impossible to stop," said Reynolds.
"The best thing we can possibly do is try to prevent kids from starting," said Samaritan Hospital CEO Danny Boggs at a meet and greet after Reynolds' presentation.
During his speech, Reynolds gave students what he called "an initiation into adulthood." He told them life is difficult... But Reynolds urged students to deal with the pain, not avoid it.
"Don't run off to drugs or alcohol or cigarettes..." said Reynolds.
He said to stay with the pain and talk to someone about it, because those who are isolated carry the weight of their pain. "Together, we will solve all the problems life throws at us," Reynolds said.
When asked, many students said their parents smoke. Reynolds invited two students to the front of the auditorium to role play a conversation.
Feelings accounted for the bulk of Reynolds' talk. He asked students how they feel, knowing tobacco companies target kids, to which one boy yelled, "I don't like it!"
He showed pictures of what tobacco ads would look like if they told the truth. One showed Joe Camel reinvented as Joe Chemo, laying in a hospital bed.
Tobacco Controls Spreading, Anti-Smoking Groups Say
CNS News, March 11, 2007
Norwalk, Ashland, Bellevue, Willard, and Clyde OH
February 11 - 13, 2008
WFMD TV, Norwalk Reflector, Central Ohio News Messenger
...Patrick Reynolds was sponsored by the Bellevue Hospital, Fisher -Titus Medical Center, and Mercy-Willard Hospital Foundation. He was touring area schools and was slated to speak to about 2,000 youths in Huron and Sandusky Counties within two days....
Alexandria, Louisiana, Jan 9-11, 2008
ABC 31 News,
1/9/2008
KALB (NBC) News Channel 5, Live at Noon 1/9/2008
The Town Talk, Alexandria, LA:
Grandson of RJ Reynolds tells Cenla to kick the habit 1/10/08
Local students rally to be smoke-free 1/11/2008
‘Get Healthy Cenla’ initiative launches Wednesday 1/9/2008
Tobacco heir criticizes tobacco
Imperial Valley (CA) Press, October 23, 2007
Raising Tobacco Taxes to Pay for S-CHIP
CNS News, October 18, 2007
Patrick Reynolds...endorsed SCHIP and contended that the additional tobacco taxes could potentially save billions of dollars in healthcare costs every year by discouraging smoking....
Big Tobacco Gives Ticket to Oblivion
Toledo (OH) Blade, Oct 15, 2007
I got to know Patrick Reynolds during the smoking ban campaign here in Ohio last year. He wrote a Saturday Essay for The Blade, he appeared on The Editors television program, and he traveled Ohio as a truth-teller in the face of the tobacco industry's lavishly funded campaign of misinformation. Fortunately, Ohioans knew whom to believe....
Smoking Ban Hits Home in Calabasas
CNBC, October 3, 2007
CNBC's Erin Burnett hosts Patrick Reynolds, The Foundation for Smoke Free America, Executive Director and Jacob Sullum, Reason Magazine Senior Editor.
Related news stories on KTTV Fox TV and KTLA-CW News, October 3, 2007, Los Angeles
Source of family's fortune a killer, tobacco heir says
Tulsa (OK) World, September 27, 2007
Taking a Stand Against Tobacco KOTV Tulsa
Japan ad campaign: Come to Hawaii, Light Up
ABC News, August 30, 2007
Quitting more effective
than Phillip Morris' "safer" cigarette
Fox News Channel, Bret Baier, June 24, 2007
Beverly Hills City Council Votes Unanimously for
Smoking Ban in Outdoor Dining, Hotel Pool Areas
Various news media, May 30, 2007
Patrick Reynolds was one of the speakers urging the Beverly Hills City Council to ban smoking in outdoor dining areas. Reynolds told the Council, "Calabasis and six other California cities, and the entire state of Washington have done this. Every beach in Southern California has banned smoking except one, Redondo; this will protect the health of kids on crowded summer holidays. Twenty states have now banned smoking from all their restaurants and bars indoors -- eighteen of them in the past four years. We're at the tipping point now. Eliminating second hand smoke is a reasonable idea whose time has come."
KABC, KCBS, AP, LA Times / KTLATV, KNBC TV, KFOX
BBC TV England, China Newswire
Los Angeles radio: KNX1070, KSEQ, KSBY
May 30, 2007
Tobacco heir speaks against legal drugs
Red Bluff (CA) Daily News, Red Bluff, CA
Son of tobacco executive speaks out
CNW - Canada Newswire, May 12, 2007
Patrick Reynolds supports the plight of Ontario's Youth gathered in Nation's Capital to fight the evils of tobacco.
Tobacco Heir Wants to Snuff Smoking
Reading (PA) Eagle, April 20, 2007
Kick Butts Week, 3 day tour, Pensacola, FL
March 27 - 29, 2007
Associated Press
Pensacola News Journal
CBS TV 5 Pensacola
ABC TV 3 Pensacola
Fox TV 7 Miami
FOX TV 10 Mobile AL
NBC TV 15 Mobile AL
Pensacola News Journal (advance)
PBS WSRE TV Pensacola, April 12, 2007
Strong smoking ban considered in Belmont, CA
CBS Early Show, 8am, March 14, 2007
Movie industry under pressure
to
limit audiences for films with smoking
MSNBC, March 13, 2007
“There’s a clear link between the percentage of characters who smoke in films and the rate of youth smoking,” Patrick Reynolds... Reynolds said he applauded the idea of a mandatory R rating, but he said it was probably more practical to seek voluntary restraint from filmmakers, along with the screening of anti-smoking ads before movies and regulatory oversight to ensure that tobacco companies don’t pay production companies to put tobacco branding in their pictures.
[CT] Bill Could Raise Smoking Age to 21
Yale Daily News, New Haven CT, March 7, 2007
The Connecticut law would be a big step toward reducing tobacco addiction, said Patrick Reynolds...
More colleges ban smoking on campus
Debate between Patrick Reynolds and
Gary Nolan, The Smoker's Club
MSNBC, March 3, 2007
New DVD: A Talk With Your Kids About Smoking
About.com, Kids' Movies & TV, February 23, 2007
10 Tools To Help You Quit - 10 Scary Stats
OK Magazine (circulation 800,000), February 26, 2007
Patrick Reynolds, the Executive Director of Tobaccofree.org, and Dr. Norman H. Edelman, Chief Medical officer of the American Lung Association, give OK! some scary statistics about the habit...
Smoking in cars with children present
MSNBC, Two Debates, January 19, 2007
CNBC Power Lunch, Debate, January 22, 2007
Fox News Channel, Weekend Live, Debate, January 28, 2007
Proposals for smoking bans in cars with kids are cropping up around the country, with Patrick Reynolds, Foundation For A SmokeFree America Executive Director; Gary Nolan, The Smoker's Club Spokesman and CNBC's Sue Herera.
Harvard Study Suggests
Cigarette Makers
Increased Nicotine
Boston University Daily Free Press, January 23, 2007
University of Miami Hurricane, January 23, 2007
Smoking habit may be genetic
Yale Daily News, New Haven, CT, January 17, 2007
Walgreen selling hand
gel as cigarette substitute
Reuters Wire January 10, 2007
Story ran in Washington Post, MSNBC, Fox News, Toronto Star, Scientific American, Reuters UK, Malaysia Star, Reuters India, KPLC TV LA, etc.
Tobacco Scion Motivates Teens at Rally
Dunklin County Health Dept
Kennet, MO, December 15, 2006
Raise Mississippi's Tobacco Tax by $1.00
December 13, 2006, Jackson, MS
The Clarion Ledger, Associated Press (Biloxi Sun Herald), The Clarion Ledger 2nd, WLBT NBC TV, WAPT ABC TV, WMC NBC TV Memphis, Mississippi Public Broadcasting, Clarion Ledger pre-event
Patrick Reynolds said, "At 18 cents, Mississippi's cigarette tax is 49th lowest among the states; it has not been raised for 21 years. Yet since 2002, 42 states have raised their tobacco tax. The average cigarette tax went from 43 cents in 2002 to 94 cents by the end of 2006 -- more than double in the past four years. Why? Higher tobacco taxes prevent kids from starting, give smokers strong incentive to quit, and provide states with additional revenues which help balance state budgets. They also pay for health care and tobacco prevention programs. Best of all for lawmakers, higher tobacco taxes are overwhelmingly popular with voters across party lines."
Smokefree Communities Forum To Take
St. Cloud, MN Smokefree
St. Cloud, MN, November 30, 2006
At the end of his presentation to a community forum attended by 400, Reynolds asked who would stand up as a symbol of their pledge to call their representative on the City Council and deliver their feelings. Over 300 in the room got up. He told them, "Whether by State Legislature or ballot initiative, sixteen states have now passed laws providing for 100% smokefree bars and restaurants statewide -- 14 of them in the past 4 years, and six in 2006," said Reynolds. "We're at the tipping point. This is an idea whose time has come."
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Tobacco Took My Dad Away
Empire Tribune,
Stephenville, TX, November 13, 2006
Student assembly programs at
Granbury and Stephenville High Schools
Why California's $2.60 cigarette tax was defeated
Why Big Tobacco spent $75 million
in CA
to defeat Proposition 86
KABC Talk Radio, Host: Al Mantell
Los Angeles, CA, November 10, 2006
8:am - 8:30am (Drive time in LA)
Missouri ballot measure would raise
the tobacco tax from 17 to 97 cents
KMOX Talk Radio, St. Louis, MO
October 31 - November 1, 2006
Competing Ohio Ballot Measures
Issue 5: 100%
Smokefree Restaurants & Bars
Issue 4: R.J. Reynolds' measure to permit smoking
5 city press tour for Smokefree Ohio:
List of print coverage
List of TV coverage
Toledo, October 27, 2006
The Toledo Blade Featureand Editorial
Join Together, WNOW NBC TV, WTOL CBS TV, WUPW Fox TV
Cincinnati, October 26, 2006
Cincinnatti Enquirer, UPI, Cincinnati Post
WKRC CBS TV, WLWT NBC TV
WLW Radio Clear Channel
Dayton, October 26, 2006
The Dayton News
Toledo (OH) Blade
2WKEF ABC TV, WRGT Fox TV
Cleveland, October 25, 2006
WTAM Newstalk
The Plain Dealer
WKYC NBC TV (Cleveland, Akron, Canton)
Columbus, October 25, 2006
WBNS CBS TV, WCMH NBC TV, WSYX ABC TV, WTTE FOX TV
Magnate’s grandson brings
anti-smoking message to schools
Daily Interlake, Kalispell MT
October 24, 2006
Missouri Ballot Measure | Cigarette tax hike
Press conference in Kansas City, MO, Ocotber 17, 2006
Fox Channel 4 WDAF, ABC Channel 9 KMBC, St. Louis Post Dispatch, The Kansas City Star, NBC Channel 41 KSHB, CBS Channel 5 KCTV, Kansas City Business Journal, KMBZ FM, KMBZ FM, KTRS FM
California ballot measure
Proposition 86 would hike the
cigarette tax $2.60 per pack; smoking in movies
KABC Los Angeles, Host: Doug MacIntyre
October 12, 2006, 8am - 9am (Drive time in LA)
Kids get an anti-smoking message
from former Big Tobacco heir
The Ridgewood (NJ) News (front page)
October 13, 2006
Smoking scion wages war against tobacco
The World, Serving Oregon's South Coast, October 6, 2006
Also covered by KOIN TV 6
“Oregon is ranked the 35th state in funding tobacco
prevention programs,” Reynolds said, “even as the state collects
$307.5 million a year in revenues from tobacco.”
Is ban on underage smoking working?
Charlotte (NC) Observer, September 17, 2006
National anti-tobacco advocates [argue] that outlawing [teen] smoking altogether could create a bigger problem.
"It almost makes tobacco look more forbidden and therefore attractive to teens and a new way to rebel and to assert their personalities," said Patrick Reynolds, spokesman for Smokefree America & Tobaccofree.org, based in Los Angeles.
...A better solution, Glantz and Reynolds said, would be counter-marketing tobacco companies, increasing cigarette taxes or imposing smoke-free laws limiting indoor smoking in all public areas. Studies have shown that smoke-free laws cut down on teen smoking as well as secondhand smoke, Glantz said.
The story of an important U.S. anti-tobacco advocate
Que Pasa, Santiago, Chile (Front page)
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Tobacco companies judged
racketeers by US Federal Judge
Australian Broadcasting Company (radio)
August 17, 2006
RJR's candy-flavored Camels
CNBC, to air week of October 7th, 2006
Melanie Griffith caught lighting
17 year old
daughter Dakota's smoke
WOR Radio, NYC, 4:30 pm, August 7, 2006
Good
Samaritan Hospital Set to Ban Smoking on Grounds
Downers Grove (IL) Reporter, June 7, 2006
Libre:
Dangers of smoking
Sun Star, Philippines - June 5, 2006
Other
states more aggressive with anti-smoking campaigns
Lexington (KY) Herald Leader, May 22, 2006
Anti-smoking
advocate renounces
family ties to the tobacco industry
Bay
News TV 9, Channel
10 CBS Tampa, Tampa, FL
May 9-10, 2006
Tobacco heir snuffs myths
The
Star Ledger and NJ.com, Somerville, NJ, April 27, 2006
WMBC
TV News, seen in NYC, NJ, and PA
SOMERVILLE
-- Many people try to persuade young people not to smoke,
but few can be as riveting as the grandson of tobacco
tycoon R.J. Reynolds.
Speaking
to freshmen and sophomores at Watchung Hills Regional
High School, tobacco scion Patrick Reynolds accused companies
like the one his father and grandfather steered of shamelessly
courting the youngest of potential buyers as "new
recruits."
Reynolds
relentlessly picked apart glossy cigarette ad campaigns,
seeking to de-mythologize the youthful aura of cool implied
by the signature brands his grandfather founded.
In
a stinging reproach of campaigns by Camel and Kool cigarettes,
both made by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., Reynolds called
new "candy-flavored" cigarettes, from "Mardi
Gras Berry Blast" to "Winter Mocha Mint," a "very
insidious appeal to our teens."
"The
tobacco companies have targeted you," Reynolds told
students, flashing pictures of Kool cigarette boxes with
pictures of rap stars printed on them. "This is
evil. This is totally going over to the dark side," he
said.
Students
gasped in shock when Reynolds showed them another campaign
offering a free radio with two packs of Kools....
More cash sought to fight smoking
Chicago
Tibune, April 19, 2006
Also: WGN, TV Channel 6, The
Daily Herald, Pioneer
Press
...Reynolds
started the Foundation for a Smokefree America and frequently
delivers his message to groups across the country. He
cited a recently released report by the Campaign for
Tobacco-Free Kids that showed Illinois ranked 34th among
states in spending on smoking prevention programs.
Illinois
spends only 17 percent of the annual expenditure recommended
by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
said the report from the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy
group.
Laws
restricting smoking have been enacted in more than 2,000
municipalities across the country, Reynolds said, and
400 communities require 100 percent smoke-free workplaces.
In addition, 14 states have laws requiring nearly 100
percent smoke-free protection.
"I
believe we're reaching a tipping point nationally with
100 percent [Statewide] smoking bans," Reynolds
said. "But Illinois is behind. There is a need for
Illinois to get up to speed on that."
Are
tobacco taxes hikes fair?
Fox News Channel,
Neil Cavuto, Your World, March 27, 2006
Colorado
passes 100% Statewide Smoking Ban
KOA Talk Radio, Denver, CO, March 21, 2006
Welcome
to the Smoking Lounge
CBS Evening News, March 20,
2006
Also ran the next morning on CBS affilliates in
Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, and other cities
...While
executives of the tobacco giant say the timing of all this
is coincidental to Chicago's smoking ban, R.J. Reynolds’ anti-smoking
grandson says he doubts that. "It
really is an in-your-face effort to say 'Hey, here is a
bar where we found a loophole where you can still smoke.'
It is a rebellion on the part of R.J. Reynolds,” says Patrick
Reynolds.
100% Smoking Ban Takes Effect in Uraguay
Associated
Press, March 2, 2006
MONTEVIDEO,
Uruguay (AP) -- Patrick Reynolds, founder of the U.S.-based
Foundation for a Smokefree America, praised Uruguay for
joining other Latin American nations that have moved to
curb smoking. "There is no safe level of secondhand
smoke," Reynolds said. "It causes lung cancer
and heart disease, and they're involuntary smokers."
Reynolds' grandson -- yes, of that
tobacco empire -- against smoking
Standard-Examiner, Ogden, UT, February 6, 2006
Patrick
Reynolds envisions a world free of tobacco smoke -- a world
where parents won't die prematurely from that smoke, where
teenagers will no longer be targeted by the tobacco advertising
industry, a world where people live a happy, healthy, smoke-free
life...
He Should Know
The Daily Times, Farmington, NM, January 18, 2006
Statewide ABC TV (KQAT) and Statewide NBC (KOB-TV) also ran stories
Smoking
remains leading cause of death in county
Ann Arbor (MI) News, December 30, 2005
On
the Money, host: Dylan Ratigan
CNBC, December 21, 2005
Companies should not be able to fire smokers,
simply because they smoke at home
RJ
Reynolds Grandson Opposes Smoking
Ohio
Public Radio, December 15, 2005
The
grandson of the founder of the giant R J Reynolds Tobacco
Company was in Ohio today, speaking out against smoking and
cigarette companies. He long ago sold off his valuable RJR
stock, and says he supports an issue that might appear on
next November's ballot in Ohio that would ban smoking in
public places.
The
American Cancer Society will mark its 29th annual Great American
Smokeout by recognizing the growing number of smoke-free
communities nationwide...smoke-free
advocate Patrick Reynolds, grandson of tobacco magnate R.J.
Reynolds, will speak in Chattanooga and Cleveland on Tuesday,
Nov. 22....
Reynolds: "A
safer cigarette is like jumping out of the 15th floor, instead
of the 20th floor..."
Reynolds: "It's
about time you didn't have to walk out of a building through
a cloud of second hand smoke that's got poison in it. This
is an idea whose time has come."
Former
Big Tobacco heir Patrick Reynolds said he came to Naperville
to give smoking ban advocates some ammunition...
Patrick
Reynolds, grandson of tobacco company magnate RJ Reynolds...
is coming to Chattanooga. Reynolds will meet with youth,
their parents and the community during an annual event
sponsored by Students Taking a Right Stand (STARS)....
NW
Airlines says its smoking employees
must pay more for health insurance
Fox News Channel, Neil Cavuto, Your World October 19,
2005
Host: "Do
you think that eradicating smoking is so important that
you will invite an employer into an employee's private
life?" Patrick Reynolds: "Employers have to pay
more for smoker's health insurance. A lot of companies
today — CNN is one (smiles) — won't
hire new employees who smoke. This happens in States without
laws protecting smokers. Just as the tobacco companies
were held accountable for lying for years about the dangers
of smoking and targeting children in their ads, smokers,
too, should be accountable — and I believe you would
agree with that." Host: "Fair enough, but..."
Nicotine
habits prove dangerous, hard to kick
The Lariat, Baylor University, Waco, TX, Oct. 12, 2005
...Reynolds
said the most important thing to do to quit smoking was
to get involved in a program. He said 95 percent of people
who try to quit outside of a program fail, the same statistic
for those trying to quit heroin without a program....
Patrick
Reynolds, a nationally known anti-tobacco activist and grandson
of tobacco company founder R.J. Reynolds, was the featured
speaker for the 23rd annual Humanity in Medicine Week at
Reid Hospital & Health Care Services.
Reynolds
gave a speech Tuesday night at Reid Hospital and another
early Wednesday morning, before coming to Test Middle School
and Dennis Middle School. Reynolds also spoke at Reid's monthly
Women on Wednesday's program.
At the schools, he closed the hour-long lecture with a story about a
teenager who died at age 19 because of cancer related to smokeless tobacco.
Pictures
showed the boy as a healthy high school track star at
age 17. Two years later, after surgery to remove cancer
from most of his tongue and part of his neck, he died. Wilson
said the imagery was shocking.
.
Teens stick to smoking despite Jennings' death
Arizona Daily Star, August 15, 2005
"Peter
Jennings gave us a real gift in being one of the more outspoken
news media on the tobacco industry. And God bless him for
that," said Reynolds, who runs the nonprofit organization
Smokefree America. But, he notes, schools often don't do
enough to get the message across. And ads by tobacco companies
grab kids' attention more effectively....
Cigars aren't healthier than cigarettes
Bradenton (FL) Herald, May 15, 2005, Business section
Despite
the cigar-smokers-don't-inhale argument, there's no safe
level of second-hand smoke, according to Patrick Reynolds,
president of Los Angeles-based Foundation for a Smoke Free
America and grandson of R.J. Reynolds, the tobacco company
founder.
Second-hand
smoke can cause lung cancer or heart disease, Reynolds
said.
Cigar
smokers may also be exposed to a slew of other cancers
including mouth cancer, throat cancer and cancer of the
gums.
Cigars
don't carry the same health warnings as cigarettes and
chewing tobacco, but can have more nicotine and tar, and
can produce 30 times more carbon monoxide, Reynolds said.
"Nicotine
in cigars is just as addictive, whether you get it from
cigarettes or cigars," Reynolds said.
Smoke
Free America is a nonprofit group that encourages tobacco-free
youth and tobacco prevention. Its Web site is www.anti-smoking.org.
Tobacco
king's grandson warns teens about smoking
Liberty Suburban Chicago News Leader, April 27, 2005
...His
appearance at Wheaton North and Wheaton Warrenville South
high schools is sponsored by Central DuPage Hospital and
the DuPage Coalition Against Tobacco. Other sponsors include
the DuPage County Health Department, the Cancer Institute
of Alexian Brothers Hospital Network, the American Cancer
Society and Elmhurst Memorial Healthcare... Reynolds also
appeared at several DuPage County high schools, speaking
to about 3,200 young people...
...Then he had one WWS student bring a friend out of the audience,
someone she said she would like to see stop smoking. He showed the
students how to begin with a compliment, so as to open the lines of
communication, and use feeling words such as "sad" and "afraid."
Reynolds ended his presentation with a story that made many of the
students gasp. He told the story of an Oklahoma high school track star
named Sean Marsee, who began using chewing tobacco at age 12, and tried
to quit but continually failed.
The whole time Reynolds told Sean's story — how he developed
tongue cancer and had to have his tongue amputated; how his cancer
came back and he had to have part of his jaw and nose removed; and
how he had to have a hole cut in his neck and a breathing tube inserted — he
showed a school portrait of the handsome, young athlete.
He ended the discussion with a photo of Sean Marsee before his death
at the age of 19, looking very different from the first photo, attached
to machines and breathing apparatuses, and clinging to life....
"I'm grossed out right now, cause I play sports," WWS freshman Kyle
Cassin said at the conclusion of the program. "It just freaks me out. It's
like, 'No way.'"
WWS freshman Jay Dragon said he would never smoke, adding his mom used
to smoke, but she quit.
Tobacco heir sees death in smoking
Chicago Daily Herald, April 12, 2005, Front page
...The
grandson of R.J. Reynolds will appear at numerous DuPage
County high schools this week in an effort to discourage
teens from smoking. On Wednesday night, as part of National
Kick Butts Day, he’ll head a panel of speakers during
a dinner at the Lisle Hilton. Events sponsors include the
DuPage County Health Department and Central DuPage Hospital.
Reynolds
father, R.J. Jr., died in 1964... He later watched other
family members, including his brother R.J. Reynolds III,
succumb to cigarette-related illnesses. Those losses led
to his desire to speak out against tobacco use, starting
with testimony before Congress in 1986 supporting banning
cigarette advertisements.
“Sometimes,
the greatest callings in life come out of the deepest wounds,” Reynolds
said....
Segment on the new smoking bans in bars and restaurants
CBS Early Show, February 23, 2005, 8:07 am
Patrick
Reynolds of TobaccoFree.org points out, "The rights
of nonsmokers who may be standing nearby supersede the
rights of smokers." Reynolds is the grandson of tobacco
man R.J. Reynolds, and he became an anti-smoking advocate
after watching his father die of emphysema.
"Why should a nonsmoker have to breath -– involuntarily -- poisonous
air?" Reynolds asks. A tolerant public turned against smokers when numerous
studies linked secondhand smoke to disease. According to the American Cancer
Society, over 60,000 deaths each year are caused by secondhand smoke. (Click
here for a complete transcript.)
St. Cloud, FL bans smoking in City Parks, Little League games
Orlando Sentinel, November 15, 2004
TV Special: World Smoking Wars
SBS (Soeul Broadcasting System), Korea
Documentary to air in mid November, 2004
Bowling
alley owner not alone in fight against smoking ban
Greeley (Colorado) Tribune, October 28, 2004
"This
is an idea whose time has come," Reynolds said. "This
is the way of the future, and some people just don't want
to change."
Reynolds,
who lost his father and brother to smoking-related illness,
said many businesses are unnecessarily wary of the financial
impact of smoking bans because organizations backed by
tobacco companies spread fear.
"This
harks back to the restaurant associations who became the
pawns of big tobacco and were often financed by big tobacco," Reynolds
said. "They fanned the fires of fear among the business
owners."
The
Truth About Tobacco
Grandson of Tobacco Tycoon RJ Reynolds to Speak Locally
The Independent Appeal, Selmer, TN (Front page)
October 27, 2004
The Smoking Gun
The Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, Australia, Oct 3, 2004
The
grandson of the founder of RJ Reynolds Tobacco, Patrick
Reynolds, who is now president of the Foundation for a
Smokefree America, last week told USA Today newspaper that
companies like his grandfather's had for years "claimed
publicly that cigarettes never cause disease, and now they
should pay the price".
Los
personajes más importantes en la lucha contra las
tabacaleras
La Tercera, Santiago, Chile, October
3, 2004
City
Council may butt in on public events
Glendale officials to ponder a voluntary ban on smoking
Los Angeles Daily News, September 24, 2004
Government
suit could ruin tobacco giants
Racketeering case seeks $280 billion
The Globe and Mail (Canada, national), September 22, 2004
"For
years, [they] claimed publicly that cigarettes never cause
disease, and now they should pay the price," said
Patrick Reynolds, president of the California-based Foundation
for a Smokefree America and grandson of the founder of
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco.
Backers
call smoking bans along beaches healthy move
San Diego Union, September 12, 2004
Leading
anti-smoking activist Patrick Reynolds, a grandson of tobacco
company founder R.J. Reynolds, said the bans are the result
of "an idea whose time has come" – no matter
what the industry says.
"The
tobacco companies always try to portray us as fanatics
or zealots," he said. "But the truth is these
are reasonable laws, intended in this case to prevent litter
and protect non-smokers."
Tasty Smokes
Flavored cigarettes put a bad taste in some people's mouths
WSBT (CBS Affiliate), South Bend, IN, August 10, 2004
TV
Anchor: "Some people say tobacco companies are deliberately
targeting teens with so called tasty cigarettes. Camel
cigarettes has new flavors like Kauai Kolada and Twista
Lime. Some anti-smoking groups say the candy-flavored smokes
target kids. The Kool brand also has a line of flavored
cigarettes. Tobaccofree advocate Patrick Reynolds had some
thoughts.
Patrick
Reynolds: "Sixty percent of US smokers start smoking
by age 14, and eighty to ninety percent become addicted
before reaching age 19. If the tobacco industry doesn't
get them as customers by age 19, it's unlikely they will
get them as customers. Once addicted, a teen can be expected
to spend $1200 per year or more on cigarettes, and will
remain a customer for an average 17 years."
KOOL
Campaign Targeting Youth?
Fox News Channel, Fox News Hour, June 19, 2004
Patrick
Reynolds: "Brown and Williamson's ad campaign for
KOOL puts rappers, hip hop artists, DJ's and dancers on
the cover of the KOOL pack and in print ads. Attorneys
General in several States have issued cease and desist
orders for targeting youth. The tobacco industry knows
that most smokers get hooked by 19, and Whatever brand
a teen first gets hooked on tends to be the brand they
stay with. We need to reinterpret the 1st Amendment, and
join the nations who have ratified the World Health Organization's
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which will further
limit tobacco advertising. It's time to start listening
less to the song of money, and more to the song of community
and life."
Advocate
Addresses Tobacco Prevention Seminar at University of Arkansas
NW Arkansas Times, Fayetteville,
AR, May 13, 2004
...Reynolds
also believes diminished expectations and heightened
anxiety among today’s teens, documented in new
research, is a significant factor [in teen smoking]. "Since
the (Sept. 11, 2001) attack and the invasions of Iraq
and Afghanistan, many of our youth are more worried about
the years ahead," said Reynolds. "It is documented
that following 9-11, there was a significant upsurge
in smoking among New York teens. "Believing
they face a bleak future, many teens may be prone to
engage in high risk behaviors before an uncertain tomorrow
arrives," he added.
Reynolds
Clears Air about the Tobacco Industry
Tobacco heir talks shop with NicotineNarcs, other students.
The Source, Shelby Township, MI, April 12, 2004
Grandson
of tobacco company founder speaks of smoking dangers
Macomb Daily, Mt. Clemens, MI, April 1, 2004
...Students
like Craft and Shekowski were both moved Wednesday by Reynolds'
story of Sean Marsee, a 17-year-old athlete from Oklahoma
who was diagnosed with tongue cancer as a result of "dipping" tobacco.
Two years after Marsee's diagnosis and after numerous surgeries
to remove parts of his cancer-ridden mouth, cheek and face,
Marsee died.
Tobacco
heir in Bucks to push anti-smoking agenda
The Morning Call, Quakertown,
PA March 17, 2004
Talks covered by 2 Philadelphia TV stations
Patrick
Reynolds says it shouldn't be difficult to find ads for
cigarettes: Just stoop down, so your eye sees the world
from a child's perspective, then look in any convenience
store. ''Countertop displays are a big part of it,'' Reynolds
said. ''They make tobacco look like a regular American
product, and they sell it next to the candy.''
TV
story on how to quit smoking
ETTV Chinese TV, Cable Channel
in US & China
March 11, 2004
Tobacco
fund sale criticized - Reynolds' grandson opposes Owens'
plan
Rocky Mountain News, November 21, 2003
(Press
conference attended by 3 local
TV stations: NBC, CBS, Univision)
"Patrick
Reynolds, grandson of tobacco company magnate R.J. Reynolds,
says Gov. Bill Owens is wrong in wanting to sell off Colorado's
stream of tobacco-settlement dollars for a lump sum amount...
"He
joined other opponents at the Colorado Capitol on Thursday
to oppose the move. He said the upfront settlement - which
Owens wants to use to bail the state out of its current
and future fiscal problems - would prove costly in the
long run.
"It
would dry up dollars used for tobacco-prevention programs
that have proven remarkably effective, Reynolds said...."
Smoking
heir says State should keep tobacco settlement
Aurora (CO) Sentinel,
November 24th, 2003
"The
grandson of tobacco magnate R.J. Reynolds said Colorado
shouldn't sell off its share of the national tobacco settlement
for a lump sum as Gov. Bill Owens proposes...."
Fight
over tobacco payout looms
AP / The Denver Post, November 21, 2003
(Press
conference attended by 3 local
TV stations: NBC, CBS, Univision)
"Thursday,
anti-smoking and health advocates including the grandson
of the founder of the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. appealed
to legislators to scrap Gov. Owens' plan for a lump-sum
payoff... 'These (smoking-cessation) programs have had
spectacular results,' said Patrick Reynolds, who chose
to work full time against smoking after watching his father
die of lung disease..."
Colorado
Governor's Plan Would Settle
for $800 Million Tobacco Payout
The
Miami Herald, November 21, 2003
Denver Post Knight Ridder / Tribune Business
News
Tobacco giant's grandson brings
health message to kids
Commerical Appeal, Memphis, TN, November 20, 2003
Also covered by 5 local TV stations Nov 18th
"Reynolds,
attached to a long microphone cord, weaved among the hundreds
of students on the bleachers and floors like a talk show
host. He asked them their feelings about smoking. He put
them in role-playing situations involving parental smoking.
There were warnings about the tobacco industry's efforts
to reach younger customers..."
Reynolds
Heir Battles Smoking
Lecture at University of Notre Dame
South Bend (IN) Tribune
November 13, 2003
Tobacco
Heir Fights Against Industry
Idaho State Journal - Pocatello
November 3, 2003
Talks at two high schools
WPMI, WALA and WKRG TV, Mobile, AL
October 30, 2003
Governor's
Firm Tied to Big Tobacco
The Boston (MA) Herald, October 23,
2003
Tobacco
baron's grandson: Don't start smoking
The Star Press, Muncie, IN, October 10, 2003
No
smoke and mirrors during honest
presentation by tobacco company heir
Homer (Alaska) Tribune
October 1, 2003
RJR
relative helps in fight against smoking
Louisville (KY) Courier
Journal
September 24, 2003
Grandson
of tobacco giant speaks against smoking at Madison Central
Richmond (KY) Register, September
11, 2003
Spotlignt
Profile
RT Magazine, Respiratory Therapists'
trade publication, August, 2003
About
the new smoking bans
Fox News Channel - DaySide with Linda
Vester
May 15, 2003
Tobacco
heir warns teens on smoking's perils
Pittsburgh (PA) Tribune Review,
Friday, May 9
"Reynolds'
decades-long crusade against smoking has taken him to legislatures
from California to Washington, D.C., and today will land
him in the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Downtown.
Organizers of the Pittsburgh Family Health Council's Peer
Power convention -- at which Reynolds is the keynote speaker
-- said they expect about 600 middle school and high school
students to attend...."
Reynolds not blowing smoke: Anti-tobacco advocate speaks to area students
Wood
County coalition focuses on teen smoking
Reynolds
Says Target Is Minors
The
three articles above all ran on April 4, 2003
in the Wisconsin Rapids (WI) Daily Tribune.
"Patrick
Reynolds, whose famous last name has been tied to tobacco
products for about 130 years, told about 830 area seventh-graders
Thursday that tobacco kills....Sponsoring Reynolds' talk
was the Tobacco Free Coalition of Wood County, St. Joseph's
Hospital, Ministry Health Care, and the Riverview Hospital
Association...."
Tobacco
heir urges students not to smoke
Marshfield (WI) News
Herald, April 4, 2003
One
man's journey to make a
difference against the tobacco industry
Avenue News, Baltimore, MD, April 2, 2003
Ban
on Smoking Igniting a Debate
100% smoking ban proposed for
Indianapolis, following bans in CA, Dallas & NYC
Indianapolis Star, February 25, 2003
"Patrick
Reynolds, head of the California-based Foundation for a
Smokefree America, said, ' There's an overwhelming body
of scientific and medical evidence that proves second-hand
smoke causes lung cancer and heart disease in nonsmokers.
Banning smoking 100 percent is an idea whose time has come.'"
Should doctors face malpractice
suits, if they fail to
provide optimal intervention for their smoking patients?
Court
TV, Katherine Crier,
The Crier Report, December 16, 2002
No-smoking
signs go up all over Delaware
The State now has the country's strictest limits on indoor smoking.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 28, 2002
"The
Foundation for a Smoke-Free America has hailed the recent
state bans. 'There is no safe level of secondhand smoke,'
said Patrick Reynolds... I think it's a good indicator
of the national mood on banning smoking.' "
Study: "Safer" cigarettes
may be all smoke
Health Scout News (Content posted
on USA Today, ABC News, Yahoo)
November 28, 2002
"Whether
the products are one percent safer or 15 percent safer,
we really don't have any clue," Reynolds said. "The
big danger is that many smokers may believe these products
are safer than they really are, and will justify their
continued smoking based on that."
Delaware
bans smoking in restaurants and bars
Delaware County Times, November 26, 2002
A
Reynolds Fights the Family Business
Greenville (SC) News, November 21, 2002
TV
news segment on NYC Mayor Bloomberg's 100% smoking ban
WABC TV, New York City, 11:00 pm
news, Sunday, Nov 10, 2002
Tobacco
Tycoon's Grandson aims to reduce smoking
Bradenton (FL) Herald, November 3, 2002
R.J.
Reynolds' Grandson Stumps For Smoking Ban
Tampa Tribune, Tampa, FL, November 2, 2002
Memories
impel two opponents of smoking
...A tobacco scion, advocating
passage of Amendment 6
St Petrersberg (FL) Times, November 2, 2002
Patrick
Reynolds calling on Michigan voters to pass
Proposal 4, the Healthy Michigan Amendment
This
amendment would have required MIchigan to spend some of
its tobacco settlement money on tobacco education and prevention.
It failed in the election. Michigan Information & Research
Service, Lansing, MI, October 29, 2002
Jury
Awards Smoker $28 Billion in Punitive Damages Against Philip
Morris
Metropolitan News-Enterprise,
Los Angeles, October 7, 2002
New
report shows a tobacco education
speaker can have substantial impact
Tobaccofree.org, September 26, 2002
R.J.
Reynolds' grandson to speak against smoking
Bangor Daily News, Bangor,
ME, September 16, 2002
New
York City's proposed 100% smoking ban
Fox
News Channel, Hannity
and Colmes, August 12, 2002
Reynolds: "In
California, in 1994, we passed a 100 percent ban of smoking
in all bars and restaurants, statewide...."
Tobacco
dying habit, kids hear
Florida Times
Union, Jacksonville, FL, April 4, 2002
Tobacco
heir warns against smoking
Albany Democrat Herald, Albany, OR, March 14, 2002
Tobacco
heir to give anti-smoking talks
Albany (OR) Democrat-Herald, March 11, 2002
Should
the legal age to buy tobacco be raised to 21?
CNN, February 21, 2002
EDITORIAL:
This anti-smoking message was clear
Superior (WI) Daily Telegram, November 17, 2001
Students
Get the Message
Daily Telegram, Superior, WI, November 14, 2001
Reynolds'
anti-tobacco speech hits home
Superior smoking ban gains popularity
Grandson
of cigarette mogul asks
Superior students to snuff out smoking
Duluth (MN) News-Tribune, Three articles, November 11-14, 2001
Anti-smoking campaign funds cut
Associated Press, November 13,
2001
PATRICK
REYNOLDS: Reynolds Heir Slams Tobacco
Reuters wire,
March 25, 1999
Reynolds
to speak at Park Falls Oct. 31
(Ashland, WI) Daily Press,
October 29, 2001
R.J.
Reynolds' heir gives anti-smoking message
School visits and a town
hall meeting in Sturgeon Bay tonight
are included in his visit
Green Bay (WI) News-Chronicle, October 10, 2001
Anti-tobacco
group releases third round of television, radio ads
Associated Press,
July 24, 2001
Philippe
Boucher's Rendez-vous with Patrick Reynolds
Source: Tobacco BBS, May 21,
2001
Keeping
teens drug free
Source: WTVJ Ch. 6, Miami, FL,
May 5, 2001
Reynolds
warns teens about tobacco addiction
South Idaho Press, April 28,
2001
Tobacco
opponent says Idaho should do more for youth
Associated
Press,
April 26, 2001
Tobacco
lawsuit awarded $145 billion
Should these lawsuits be allowed?
CBS TV -- July 18, 2000
GRAHAM:
Awful truth online helps kids say no to smoking
USA Today, October 31, 2000
Tobacco
heir tours to snuff out smoking
Source: Antelope Valley (CA) Press, November 17, 1999
Tobacco
Heir Snuffs Out Cigarettes for Students
MSNBC, October
13, 1999
Reynolds,
el 'arrepentido'
El nieto del fundador de la potente tabacalera
de EE UU lidera una campaña antitabaco
El Pais, July 18, 1999
Patrick Reynolds - Smokebuster!
Heart Corps Magazine
January, 1990
High resolution image
Hands Up and Butts Out
Time Magazine, April 27, 1987
Beverly Hills outlaws smoking in restaurants
"Posterity may find that this ban was well ahead of its time," says Patrick Reynolds, an antismoking activist and Beverly Hills resident who saw his father die of emphysema. He is the grandson of R.J. Reynolds, founder of the famed tobacco company.
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