Grandson of Tobacco Company Founder Speaks Out Against Smoking
WMBF NBC, WPDE ABC, WBTW CBS, The Sun News, WRNN-FM 99, The Digitel, Sun News editorial by Patrick Reynolds
January 18, 2012, Myrtle Beach, SC

Tobacco Heir: Quit Tips for New Year's Resolutions
UPI Wire story, January 6, 2012
WJR Talk Radio, Detroit, January 5, 2012

Anti-smoking activist rallies elves for Santa
America's newswires, Tell It to Al, December 14, 2011
Related TV segments: Fox National News, MSNBC Interview December 4, 2011 and Fox News, December 5

Tobacco Heir Still Battling His Legacy
Feature article in the Dow Jones Newswire, December 13, 2011
Picked up by The Wall Street Journal Market Watch
and The Denver Post

Graphic photos on cigarette packs aid public health
Editorial, The Toledo Blade, Toledo, OH, November 21, 2011

..."These large graphic warnings do three things," Patrick Reynolds said. "They inform consumers about the risk, they motivate smokers to stop, and they discourage kids and former smokers from starting the habit." Some 43 countries already require graphic warnings on cigarette packages, he pointed out. "It's time the United States did, too."

Great American Smokeout Day
AP Broadcast Radio Briefs, CBS Radio Network, CNN Radio
November 17, 2011

Reynolds: "If you've tried to quit smoking before and failed, take comfort in the fact that most smokers fail several times before they stop successfully. Don't get the idea I can't quit. Understand it's part of the normal journey to becoming a non-smoker. Second, get help. Get in a good program like the NCI's 1-800-QUITNOW or..."

Scion of Reynolds Tobacco Empire Speaks Out Against Smoking
Editorial: Up In Smoke?
Litchfield County Times, Litchfield, CT, November 9, 2011

Judge blocks FDA mandated graphic images on cigarette packages
AP Broadcast, CBS Radio News, Al Jazeera English
November 8, 2011

Newsletter
National Center for Prevention Research and Solutions
November 1, 2011

Cain ad with smoking Chief of Staff rasies questions
The Hill, Washington, DC, October 25, 2011
New York Daily News, October 30, 2011

A campaign video featuring Herman Cain’s chief of staff smoking a cigarette spread virally Tuesday... “I’m dismayed to see a presidential candidate, in his advertising, depicting smoking,” said Patrick Reynolds, founder of the Foundation for a Smokefree America and a grandson of tobacco magnate R.J. Reynolds. “Children at home are seeing that on television, and it sets a bad example for kids. It’s irresponsible.”

Reynolds to Kewanee teens: Big Tobacco targeting you
Star Courier (front page), Kewanee, IL, WKEI 1450AM-104.3FM, October 14, 2011, Advance article

Grandson of tobacco giant speaks out against smoking
YNN-TV Central NY, News 7 Syracuse, NY

Child exposed to second-hand smoke moved to foster care
KTRH AM 740 News, Houston, Texas, September 28, 2011

Should smoking be banned from public parks?
Detroit talk radio, September 14, 2011

New Gallup poll: One in four look down on smokers
USA Today, September 8, 2011 (also ran in Detroit Free Press, others)

"Just because someone has already failed once, twice or more doesn't mean they can't be successful the next time. We know that now," says Patrick Reynolds, who in 1989 started the non-profit Foundation for a Smokefree America. "Failed attempts are part of the normal journey toward becoming a non-smoker." Reynolds is the grandson of cigarette company founder R.J Reynolds and a former smoker who's spent more than two decades taking the tobacco companies to task, amassing information about the ill effects of smoking, connecting with the best scientific experts, speaking to audiences worldwide — especially school kids — and sharing much of his accumulated knowledge on his website, TobaccoFree.org.

R.J. Reynolds' grandson speaks at 6 middle schools and health fair against tobacco
The Goshen News, The News Sun (front page), NBC WNBU TV, FOX 28 TV (South Bend, IN), Elkhart Truth, La Grange Standard
August 24-27, 2011, Goshen, IN

Seven tobacco companies sue FDA over mandated graphic warning labels on 50% of the front and back of cigarette packs
Reuters wire; CBS Radio Network
August 16, 2011

Big Tobacco Has Trimmed Billions from Advertising Campaigns
DailyFinance.com, AOL Money and Finance, July 29, 2011

DARE sponsors tobacco mogul grandson's talks against smoking
TV13 Orlando (text version), The Orlando Sentinel, The Daily Commerical (Front page with photo), 105.9 FM Orlando, 102 FM Orlando & two other stations
July 14, 2011, Lake County, FL

 

FDA's graphic new warnings on tobacco products
Al Jazeera English, WLW Talk radio Cincinatti, Host: Sloanie & Tracy,
WLW Cincinatti, Host: Amazon, WWL870AM New Orleans
June 21-23, 2011

"The FDA's graphic new cigarette warning labels are a major landmark in the fight against tobacco in the US. The labels are required on 50% of the front and back of all cigarette packs starting in September, 2012. The United States joins 43 other countries that already require similar labels..."

 

World No Tobacco Day 2011
CBS News Radio Network, KNX News Los Angeles, Chinese News, Telemundo - May 31, 2011

Verbal Battle in the War on Smoking
NYC's latest ban on outdoor smoking
NBC New York, May 24, 2011

Cig-Sucking WWE Star SMOKED by TobActivist
TMZ, April 19, 2011

Turning on Tobacco
Front page feature, The Herald-Palladium, serving Southwest Michigan
Sunday, April 10, 2011

The Other Side of Tobacco Road
Profile, South Bend (IN) Tribune, April 8, 2011

Grandson of Tobacco Magnate Speaks to Local Kids About Smoking
NPR Ozarks, Springfield MO, April 8, 2011

Manner of Man Magazine
Interview, April 6, 2011

TV Debate: Big Tobacco Goes Global
Al Jazeera English, Riz Khan Show, January 5, 2011

Tobacco giants are marketing heavily to a new generation of customers in developing nations. "As they have in the past, they're using tobacco farmers as pawns in a bid to deflect attention away from the health issue," says Patrick Reynolds of Tobaccofree.org. Mr. Reynolds debates the chief executive of the International Tobacco Growers' Association. Their impassioned discussion sheds light on international tobacco issues, cigarette company tactics and the main points of the UN's global treaty on tobacco.

Global rise of anti-smoking campaigns
Kommersant Business Daily
Moscow, Russia, November 23, 2010

Jordan Hospital bringing an unlikely guest to Plymouth
Plymouth MA, November 24, 2010
Boston Globe, WBZ-AM Jordan Rich Show,
WATD-FM Boston, Old Colony Memorial,
PDF of Cape Cod Times, Old Colony Memorial, Boston Globe

His name says 'tobacco'
His message: Don't do it
Napa Valley Register, Napa CA, November 18, 2010
Grapes and Raisins, Napa Valley Register Editorial Page



Wall Street Journal
Photos of the Day, November 18

FDA Proposes Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels
Associated Press, November 10, 2010

"This is going to stop kids from starting to smoke ... and it's going to give smokers a strong incentive to quit smoking," said Patrick Reynolds, grandson of R.J. Reynolds and executive director of the Foundation for a Smokefree America. Reynolds' father, brother and other relatives died from smoking-related illnesses.

Grandson of Tobacco Magnate
Campaigns Against Smoking
Reporter-News, Abilene TX, November 10, 2010
Talks also covered by Abilene TV news

 

Three Tobacco Companies Sue New York City
Contesting mandated anti-smoking ads at points of sale
MSNBC Debate with Patrick Reynolds, October 14, 2010

 

Salt Lake Tribune, Al Hartmann



Coverage of live talk at a middle school
Salt Lake City, UT, October 11, 2010
Salt Lake City Tribune, Deseret News
KSL NBC TV, Fox TV 13, Howard Stern (Sirius)
& other Fox and NBC affiliates

RJ Reynolds' Grandson to speak at two high schools
Pawhuska (OK) Journal-Capital, September 4, 2010

Smokers Unfazed by 10 cent Tobacco Tax Hike Threat
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, June 10, 2010

Motivational talks to youth and adults
Sponsor: Sheppard Pratt Hospital
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

Before a packed auditorium Reynolds spoke of the loss of his father and brother to tobacco-related illnesses, which led him on a worldwide mission to fight the empire his family built... Smoking is a relevant topic when talking about heart health. For instance, Saint Francis Hospital, known for its cardiac care, sees more than 36,000 patients per year in its emergency department, said Margo Schafer, hospital director of public relations.

Gossip Girl Star, 15, Criticized for Smoking
US Magazine, February 1, 2010

Smoker's Stress
MSN.com

Patrick Reynolds: “People relapse as a result of stress...The stress can be positive, such as being out with friends and being overwhelmed by an urge to smoke; or negative, as with the stress induced by work and pressure..."

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.

The junior high auditorium is filled to capacity, yet the crowd is hushed. Students sit at rapt attention, uncharacteristically still. Tears glisten on their youthful cheeks, and even the tough guys listen quietly. On the stage, a few minutes earlier, Patrick Reynolds opened his talk with a promise, “Today, we’re going to get in touch with our feelings...."

Ashland Times-Gazette, Ashland, OH

 

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, June 22, 2009

Fox News Channel - Obama Signs Bill for FDA Regulation,
KCBS TV Los Angeles,
Los Angeles Times,
National Public Radio,
AP Broadcast Radio,
BBC Radio,
CNN Radio Network,
CNN Wire Services,
640 AM Los Angeles
and other stations nationally

CNN Wire: Patrick Reynolds, whose grandfather founded the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., said the passage of the bill "marks the diminished clout of the tobacco lobby on the Hill." See Reynolds' press statement.

 

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

Patrick Reynolds: "The Federal 61 cent tobacco tax is a win-win-win. First, it will significantly reduce teen smoking and give smokers a strong financial incentive to quit. Second, the new tax will bring in revenue to provide health insurance for 4 million uninsured children. Third, it’s a win for politicians of all parties who voted for it, as tobacco taxes are overwhelmingly popular with voters across party lines. More than 80% of Americans are now non-smokers, but we are all paying for the health care costs of smoking.”

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

“If you call a friend a fool for smoking, you lose them. They tune out. On the other hand, if you approach them in a warm, friendly manner and tell what you’re feeling, your friend or loved one will open and really hear what what you have to say.

Reynolds urged students throughout his presentations to speak from their inner core of feelings. “You will connect, if you talk from the heart. When you talk from your heart, you are a powerful communicator,’’ he said...

Smoking Banned from NC Schools
Voice of America, China, Mandarin language
August 20, 2008

Global Fight Against Smoking
Fox News Channel, July 27, 2008
1:55pm NY time

The Bloomberg and Gates Foundations jointly give $500 million to fight smoking in poorer nations. Guest Patrick Reynolds applauds the focus on nations where smoking rates are highest, and talks about his plans to tour in China, India, Russia, and the Middle East.

He's Bringing The Smokefree Message to the USA
Perfect Smile Magazine (For dentists' offices)
July, 2008

Tony Schwartz, father of 'daisy ad,' dies at 84
New York Times' Wire Service, June 17, 2008

...He later produced an evocative television ad in which Patrick Reynolds, a grandson of the tobacco magnate R. J. Reynolds, named the members of his family who had died of cancer, emphysema and heart disease.

Ending the Epidemic
Moderator: NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman
Smoking cessation summit, June 16, 2008
Commonwealth Club, San Francisco
San Francisco Chronicle, Workit.com, MBC TV (So Korea)

County: Smokers Need Not Apply (Front page)
Sarasota - Bradenton (FL) Herald Tribune, May 20, 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
Bellevue Gazette, Clyde Enterprise
Central Ohio News Messenger (advance article)

...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

A marketing campaign, "Smoking With Aloha", seeks to correct misconceptions among Japanese that you can't smoke anywhere in Hawaii.

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."

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...

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...

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.

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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