[Intl-tobacco] Ntl. Speaking Tour -- Big Tobacco's Assault on Global Health (April 22 - May 1)

[Robert Weissman]

NATIONAL SPEAKING TOUR!!!

BIG TOBACCO'S ASSAULT ON GLOBAL HEALTH (April 22 - May 1)

The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids is sponsoring a national speaking
tour of
two leading international tobacco control advocates, Dr. Eva Kralikova of
the Czech Republic and Mary Assunta of Malaysia from April 22nd to May 1st.
They will discuss the harmful practices of U.S. tobacco companies overseas
and the industry's aggressive search for new customers around the world.
These two remarkable women have been instrumental in fighting the tobacco
industry's aggressive search for new customers around the world.

The tour will take them to New York, Washington DC, Boston, Sacramento, San
Francisco, Berkeley, and Los Angeles. All of the events are open to the
public. Dates, times and contact people are below. Please join us!


Date: Monday - April 22
City: New York
Time: 5-6:30pm
Location: Columbia University Health Sciences Campus, New York Presbyterian
Hospital, Clark Conference Center Room 1&2, 1st Floor (177 Fort Washington
Street -- at 168th Street)
Contact: Nancy Rodriguez, Latino Council on Alcohol & Tobacco, tel.
212-304-6563
e-mail: nr301@columbia.edu
Jenny Foreit, Tobacco Free Kids, tel. 202-296-5469 x3025
email: jforeit@tobaccofreekids.org

Date: Wednesday - April 24
City: Washington, DC
Time: 8:30-10:00am
Location: Hyatt Regency, Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Contacts:
Kimberly Weich Reusché, Tobacco Free Kids,  tel.202-296-5469  x3052
e-mail: kwreusche@tobaccofreekids.org
RSVP to  202-745-5060 or briefings@gymr.com

Date: Wednesday - April 24
City: Baltimore
Time: 12:15-1:45
Location: Johns Hopkins University, Hygiene Building, Room W-3030 (615 N.
Wolf Street)
Contacts:
Heather Wipfli, John Hopkins, tel. 410-955-3435
e-mail: hwipfli@jhsph.edu
Jenny Foreit, Tobacco Free Kids, tel. 202-296-5469 x3025
email: jforeit@tobaccofreekids.org


Date: Thursday -- April 25
City: Boston
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Harvard School of Public Health (Room to be announced)
677 Huntington Avenue
Contacts:
Shelley Day, Harvard School of Public Health 617-432-9077
email: shelly_day@student.hms.harvard.edu
Jenny Foreit, Tobacco Free Kids, tel. 202-296-5469 x3025
email: jforeit@tobaccofreekids.org


Date: Monday - April 29
City: Sacramento
Time: 10:30-12:00am
Location: State Capitol, Room 4203
Contacts:
RSVP to Sharen Muraoka, American Cancer Society, tel. 916-448-0500
e-mail: Sharen.Muraoka@cancer.org
Cyndi Lewis, Tobacco Free Kids, tel. 360-202-5281
e-mail: clewis@tobaccofreekids.org

Date: Monday - April 29
City: San Francisco
Time: 7-9pm
City: San Francisco
Location: Women's' Building Auditorium, 3543 18th Street (between
Valencia &
Guerrero)
Contacts:
Ross Hammond, Tobacco Free Kids, tel. 415-452-9322
email: margross@igc.org
Susana Hennessey Lavery, SF Tobacco Free Project, tel. 415-581-2446
e-mail: susanht@igc.org

Date: Tuesday - April 30
City: Berkeley
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
Location: UC Berkeley School of Public Health, 22 Warren Hall (at University
& Oxford Sts.)
Contact:
Ross Hammond, Tobacco Free Kids, tel. 415-452-9322
email: margross@igc.org
Sule Gordon, Campaign Against Transnational Tobacco, tel. 510-208-0400
e-mail: sgordon@publicinvestment.org

Date: Wednesday - May 1
City: Los Angeles
Time: 12-2pm
Location: UCLA, Kerckoff Hall (Grand Salon)
Contacts:
Ross Hammond, Tobacco Free Kids, tel. 415-452-9322
e-mail: margross@igc.org
Dan Rosan, Campaign Against Transnational Tobacco, tel. 510-208-0400
e-mail: drosan@publicinvestment.org


More Tour Information:

Press Contact: Nicole Dueffert, Tobacco Free Kids, tel. 202-296-5469 x3035
(cell -- 202-352-4223)
e-mail: ndueffert@TobaccoFreeKids.org


Speaker Bios:

Mary Assunta works for the Consumers Association of Penang in Malaysia,
where she coordinates national action against the tobacco industry. An
expert on tobacco advertising, she was the first foreign tobacco control
advocate to publicly challenge Philip Morris CEO Geoffrey Bible at the
company's annual stockholders' meeting in 1998. She has served as a member
of the World Health Organization's Policy & Strategy Advisory Committee on
Tobacco and is a member of the Steering Committee for the Framework
Convention Alliance, an alliance of over 160 groups from some 73 countries
dedicated to a strong and effective global tobacco treaty. She is currently
on a one-year sabbatical at the University of Sydney researching tobacco
industry documents relating to South East Asia and pursuing a Masters in
Public Health. She recently contributed a photo-essay to the publication
"How Do You Sell Death"
(http://tobaccofreekids.org/campaign/global/FCTCreport2.pdf), an expose of
tobacco industry advertising around the globe.

Dr. Eva Kralikova is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at
Charles University in the Czech Republic. As head of the Smoking Cessation
Clinic at the University, Eva has spent over a decade fighting the tobacco
industry in the Czech Republic. She is the author and co-author of over 100
publications and papers on tobacco addiction and cessation. In July of 2001,
Eva played a key role in exposing a Philip Morris-financed study which
sought to convince the Czech government that early deaths from smoking had
"positive effects" because they save the government money. She was
subsequently quoted extensively in the U.S. media, and appeared on ABC World
News Tonight and the CBS Evening News. She is a member of the Czech Medical
Society and the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. (for more
information on the Philip Morris Czech Report, see:
http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/philipmorris/)