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Guide to the Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Records,
1974-1994 (bulk dates 1978-86)
MSS 94-29
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Title: Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Records,
Date (inclusive): 1974-1994 (bulk dates 1978-86)
Collection number: MSS 94-29
Creator: Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Extent: 13 cartons, 1 box, 1 folder
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Records, MSS 94-29, Archives & Special Collections, UCSF Library
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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.
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.