Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Peter Hanauer Correspondence,
Date (inclusive): 1976-1994, (bulk 1976-81)
Collection number: MSS 94-44
Creator: Hanauer, Peter
Extent: 3 cartons, 2 boxes (Originally 7 cartons, reduced to 3 after processing with 4 cartons returned to Peter Hanauer)
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.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Peter Hanauer Correspondence, MSS 94-44, Archives & Special Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
Biography
Peter Hanauer has been involved in the nonsmokers' rights movement since early 1974, when he began to work with the Berkeley
chapter of Group Against Smoking Pollution (GASP). In March, 1976, he co-founded California GASP, the organization that eventually
became Californians for Nonsmokers' Rights (CNR) and then Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR). He has been co-author of
one of the first comprehensive nonsmokers' rights ordinances in the country, which was adopted by the Berkeley City Council
in April, 1977. He also co-authored California Propositions 5 and 10, the two statewide initiative measures that were placed
on the ballot in 1978 and 1980 respectively, and he was the treasurer of the two statewide campaigns in support of the two
measures. He was president of CNR between 1981 and 1983 and president of ANR between 1986 and 1987. During the years when
he was not president of these organizations, he was on the Board of Directors of both CNR and ANR. Peter Hanauer is a co-author
of the book The Cigarette Papers, which is an analysis of the papers in the Brown & Williamson Collection.
Scope and Content
Collection includes correspondence, publications of nonsmokers' rights groups, press clippings, campaign literature, legal
briefs, and audio cassette tapes.