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Glantz (Stanton A.) Papers
MSS.97.08  
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Description
This collection contains materials gathered by professor Stanton A. Glantz in the course of his anti-tobacco work. It is comprised of drafts and copies of tobacco-related articles written or co-written by Glantz, research and references supporting his books The Cigarette Papers and Tobacco War, research and reports on the tobacco industry's influence in politics, materials from his service with the Statewide Air Pollution Resource Center (SAPRC), and other materials related to Glantz' anti-tobacco activities. The audiovisual materials in the collection consist of Glantz's television appearances and various anti-smoking television advertisments, as well as audio interviews with anti-smoking advocates, business owners and other stakeholders which informed the publication of Tobacco War and other tobacco control policy work.
Background
Stanton Arnold Glantz is a professor in the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, at the University of California, San Francisco, and a well-known anti-tobacco activist and writer. In 1994, Glantz donated to the UCSF Tobacco Control Archives his research files based on copies of internal tobacco industry documents, which are known as the Brown & Williamson Collection. He co-authored with John Slade, Lisa A. Bero, Peter Hanauer, and Deborah E. Barnes The Cigarette Papers (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996) and Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles (Berkeley: University of California Press, c.2000) with Edith D. Balbach. Glantz has written numerous articles based on the Brown & Williamson industry documents and co-wrote a series of reports on the tobacco industry and anti-tobacco activities around the country. Glantz received a Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics/Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1973 and stayed at Stanford as a Research Fellow in Cardiology. He came to UCSF in 1975 as a Research Fellow in Cardiovascular Research, eventually becoming an Assistant Professor in 1977 and a full Professor in 1987. Glantz has served on the California State Tobacco Education Program Media Advisory Committee (1990-92). He was also a member of the California Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air Contaminants (1986-96) and affiliated with the Statewide Air Pollution Resource Center (SAPRC) where he was concerned with the effects of ETS (Environmental Tobacco Smoke). Dr. Glantz is Director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education and Principal Investigator for the UCSF-based Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science.
Extent
12.5 Linear Feet (7 cartons, 12 boxes)
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Library & Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Archives & Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Library & Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Availability
The collection is open for research.