Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Records, 1974-1994 (bulk dates 1978-86)

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Summary

Title:
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Records,
Dates:
1974-1994 (bulk dates 1978-86)
Creators:
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Records, MSS 94-29, Archives & Special Collections, UCSF Library & CKM

Background

Scope and content:

This collection documents the work of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR) in California.

This collection has been divided into seven series: Group Against Smoking Pollution; Californians for Nonsmokers' Rights; Legislation; Nonsmokers' Rights Organizations; California Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation; Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights; and Non-Print Media. Materials include correspondence, newsletters, annual reports, research reports and studies on smoking, newspaper clippings, photographs, ballot proposition endorsements, pamphlets, signs, press releases and copies of legislation. Subjects covered include Propositions 5 and 10, tobacco advertising, tobacco industry, state, county and city legislation and campaigns and workplace smoking ordinances. Series V -California Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation -includes materials regarding the video "Death in the West" and the video is included in series VII -Non-Print Media. The collection is arranged by subject or chronologically for correspondence and reports. A finding aid is available which lists folder titles.

Biographical / historical:

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rightswas established in 1976 as the Group Against Smoking Pollution (GASP)when several local GASPs across California merged and incorporated. In 1981 California GASP became Californians for Nonsmokers' Rights (CNR).CNR went national in 1986 and became ANR. ANR is a national group which advocates the rights of nonsmokers. ANR has been involved in political campaigns in California for Propositions 5 (1977-1978) and 10 (1979-1980) and 99 (1986), and against Proposition 188 (1994). Nationally ANR has been involved in banning smoking on airline flights and in upholding the Environmental Protection Agency's risk assessment of secondhand smoke as a carcinogen.

Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Physical description:
13 cartons, 1 box, 1 folder

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Brooke Dykman Dockter
Date Prepared:
© 1997
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word. Date of source: Unknown.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Records, MSS 94-29, Archives & Special Collections, UCSF Library & CKM

Location of this collection:
UCSF Library & CKM Archives and Special Collections, 530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840, US