Also works on advertising and youth access issues. Funding comes from membership and training workshops. Legal and legislative issues. A legal-action organization that assists and pursues suits on government inaction on smoking control issues such as minors' access to vending machines, secondhand smoke, smokefree workplaces, restaurants, transportation, and custody issues. Banzhaf played a key role in getting legislation passed to make national airline flights smokefree and to get tobacco ads off the airwaves.
Money comes from donors.
Dr. Thomas Houston, director of the department of preventive medicine and environmental health. He is also the national program director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's SmokeLess States initiative. The role of doctors, tobacco, and health. Acts as a liason between anti-smoking activists and the medical community. Develops policy for the AMA and for physicians on tobacco and smoking issues, writes reports on practice guidelines for doctors on helping people quit, etc.