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1st appeared 26 January 2001

Symposium to Address Truth Unearthed by Tobacco Documents, Jan. 31

UCSF and the American Legacy Foundation will present an academic symposium, titled "In Their Own Words: Using the Tobacco Industry’s Documents to Unearth the Truth," on Wednesday, January 31, 4 to 5:30 p.m., in room N 225 of the School of Nursing building.

The speakers will be:

• Christine O. Gregoire, Attorney General for the state of Washington and chair of the American Legacy Foundation Board of Directors. She was the lead negotiator for states in litigation with the tobacco industry that led in 1998 to the largest legal settlement in US history.

• Hubert H. "Skip" Humphrey III, former Minnesota Attorney General and Senior Fellow, University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Like Gregoire and other state attorney generals, he played a major role in releasing internal tobacco industry documents for public scrutiny.

• Derek Yach, Executive Director, Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health, World Health Organization.

Steven A. Schroeder, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a member of the American Legacy Foundation Board of Directors, will moderate the program.

The American Legacy Foundation was created by the November 1998 Master Settlement Agreement between a coalition of attorneys general in 46 states and five US territories and the tobacco industry. It is a national, independent, public health foundation located in Washington, DC.

The foundation collaborates with organizations interested in decreasing tobacco consumption among all ages and populations. The foundation’s goals include:

• Reducing youth tobacco use.

• Reducing exposure to secondhand smoke.

• Increasing successful quit rates.

• Reducing disparities in access to prevention and cessation services and in exposure to secondhand smoke.

The American Legacy Foundation

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