Ohio Smokers' Rights Election Archive

In 2005, the American Cancer Society formed Smoke Free Ohio, a campaign to impose a statewide smoking ban through a ballot initiative, Issue 5. It supposedly passed in the 2006 election, which was notorious for voting machine tampering. Their purported opponent, Smoke Less Ohio, which was headed by RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, sponsored Issue 4 - a ban on smoking in 90% of enclosed public places! - and they were misrepresented to the public as "smoking ban opponents!" To minimize smoking restrictions, it would have been best to vote against BOTH issue 4 and issue 5!

The truth is that "Big Tobacco" has purposely sold smokers out every step of the way because they were taken over by the anti-smokers long ago, meaning starting with the old American Tobacco trust. Just look at the board of directors of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco - it's full of anti-smokers with ties to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The conspirators were rich anti-smokers with ties to Skull & Bones who bought all the companies and walked in the front door. They couldn't just shut down the factories because someone else would take over the business. So, they took over the health establishment and used it manufacture corrupt pseudo-science based on lifetyle questionnaires, in order to falsely blame tobacco for diseases caused by infection. Then, they engineered all the lawsuits in order to "poison the waters" so that others wouldn't dare go into the business. And ultimatelty, the conspirators intend to outlaw tobacco altogether, all on the foundation of lies, deceit and fraud.

What they did in Ohio is a a classic example of the Hegelian trick of false alternatives. Smoke Less Ohio followed the tobacco industry's anti-smoker-approved script to throw the fight to the anti-smokers by allowing them to frame the issue as "freedom versus public health" instead of "anti-smoker scientific fraud," and suckered business owners with a phony pretense of concern the whole time they were selling them out. This has been the strategy for anti-smoker victory everywhere, because they know that if they convince the public that secondhand smoke is dangerous, they can sucessfully ram their smoking bans down the peoples' throats. They have the precedents of various earlier interventions in the name of "public health" to protect them from any Constitutional challenge.

And the suckers who fell for their scam were run over and left in the ditch, bleating impotently. Now some of them are trying to dupe everyone in the country into signing a nationwide petition for a Congressional hearing. These people are completely incompetent. They still refuse to question the anti-smokers' health lies, and insist on framing the issue as "freedom versus public health." Even if they got their hearing, it could only serve as a pretext for the anti-smokers to patronizingly reiterate their lies and reject these losers demands.

SmokeFree Ohio's Filthy Psychopathic Lies

"Toxic Chemicals: As much as 468,000 tons of tobacco are burned indoors each year. Secondhand smoke is the only source of air-borne nicotine and contains more than 4,000 chemical compounds; more than 40 are known to cause cancer.1 Secondhand smoke includes such notorious chemicals as formaldehyde, cyanide, arsenic, carbon monoxide, methane, benzene, and radioactive polonium-210.2 Levels of carcinogens increase in nonsmokers when they visit a public setting where smoking is allowed." (The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke. SmokeFree Ohio. Accessed Jan. 18, 2008.)

Official OSHA Policy on Secondhand Smoke: "Because the organic material in tobacco doesn't burn completely, cigarette smoke contains more than 4,700 chemical compounds. Although OSHA has no regulation that addresses tobacco smoke as a whole, 29 CFR 1910.1000 Air contaminants, limits employee exposure to several of the main chemical components found in tobacco smoke. In normal situations, exposures would not exceed these permissible exposure limits (PELs), and, as a matter of prosecutorial discretion, OSHA will not apply the General Duty Clause to ETS." (02/24/2003 - Reiteration of Existing OSHA Policy on Indoor Air Quality: Office Temperature/Humidity and Environmental Tobacco Smoke. Standard Number: 1910.1000.)

"No Safe Exposure: The U.S. EPA classifies secondhand smoke as a Group A carcinogen—a substance known to cause cancer in humans—the same category as radon and asbestos. There is no safe level of exposure for Group A toxins." (The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke. SmokeFree Ohio. Accessed Jan. 18, 2008.)

The so-called "EPA" report on passive smoking wasn't even written by real EPA scientists, who were against calling secondhand smoke a human carcinogen. But they were simply ignored, and the key chapters were ghost-written by corrupt anti-smoking activists, who used illegal pass-through contracts to conceal their identities. And on the board of directors of the corrupt EPA contracting firm that handled the pass-throughs sat Fred Malek, who was the 1992 campaign director for President George H.W. Bush, Skull & Bones 1948 - during whose administration this report was released. And the media have deliberately covered up this outrageous official wrongdoing in order to shove THEIR anti-smoking political agenda down the public's throat.

"Heart Disease: Exposure to secondhand smoke is consistently associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease. The Center for Disease Control recommends that all patients with heart disease and or at an increased risk of heart disease should avoid all indoor environments that permit smoking. The American Heart Association confirms that secondhand smoke increases your risk of death due to heart disease including coronary attacks, heart failure and fatal arrhythmias." (The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke. SmokeFree Ohio. Accessed Jan. 18, 2008.)

The decline in heart disease death rates since 1970 has been as large among smokers as among non-smokers.(Temporal trends in coronary heart disease mortality and sudden cardiac death from 1950 to 1999: the Framingham Heart Study. CS Fox, JC Evans, MG Larson, WB Kannel, D Levy. Circulation 2004 Aug 3;110(5):522-527). "Nonsudden CHD death decreased by 64% (95% CI 50% to 74%, Ptrend<0.001), and SCD rates decreased by 49% (95% CI 28% to 64%, Ptrend<0.001). These trends were seen in men and women, in subjects with and without a prior history of CHD, and in smokers and nonsmokers." The decline in cigarette smoking has been much greater in middle-aged men than in middle-aged women, which is not at all in accord with the equivalence in the decline in mortality for the sexes.

For socioeconomic reasons, smokers and passive smokers are more likely to have been exposed to infectious causes of heart disease, such as cytomegalovirus. The anti-smokers' studies deliberately ignore the role of infection, in order to falsely blame active smoking and secondhand smoke for the excess. This is the reason that the pretended effects of secondhand smoke are so similar to the pretended effects of active smoking.

"Lung Cancer: Secondhand smoke is responsible for at least 3,000 lung cancer deaths of nonsmokers yearly, 30 times more lung cancer deaths than all other regulated air pollutants combined.10 Of the 3,000, 800 are from exposure to secondhand smoke at home, and 2,200 from exposure at work and other public places.11 A nonsmoker who lives with a smoker has a 21 percent higher risk of developing lung cancer over their adult lifetime. But if the nonsmoker lived with a smoking parent as a child, the nonsmoker’s risk jumps 63 percent above that of someone who has always lived in a smoke-free home." (The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke. SmokeFree Ohio. Accessed Jan. 18, 2008.)

All of the anti-smokers' studies on passive smoking and lung cancer are based on scientific fraud. There are more than 50 studies which implicate HPV as a cause ten times more lung cancers than their charlatans pretend are caused by passive smoking. Smokers and passive smokers are more likely to have been exposed to HPV, so all the anti-smokers have to do to falsely blame tobacco is to ignore HPV in their studies. And this is exactly what they have done to concoct phony passive smoking risks.

And here are the anti-smokers' worthless junk studies. They are all based on nothing but lifestyle questionnaires.

"Asthma: Secondhand smoke worsens asthma symptoms, especially in children." (The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke. SmokeFree Ohio. Accessed Jan. 18, 2008.)

The EPA's Sorry Status Report on Children and Asthma: "America's Children and the Environment. Measures of Contaminants, Body Burdens, and Illnesses," Second Edition, US EPA, Feb. 2003. EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman boasts that "This report marks the progress we have made as a nation to reduce environmental risks faced by childen," including "Reducing emissions of diesel pollutants from trucks and buses, which will help prevent hundreds of thousands of asthma attacks in children each year" and "Implementing the Smoke-Free Home Pledge campaign, designed to protect millions of children from the risks of tobacco smoke at home." But you have to go all the way down to pdf page 73 to learn that "Between 1980 and 1995, the percentage of children with asthma doubled, from 3.6 percent in 1980 to 7.5 percent in 1995." [And death rates from asthma during this period nearly tripled. The death rates are a more solid indicator than diagnoses of asthma because, unlike doctor visits, death is not optional.] The graph on pdf page 65 boasts of declines in cotinine levels during this same period.

Not even the author of the EPA ETS report chapters on asthma, Dr. Fernando Martinez of the University of Arizona, believes in the garbage that he wrote any more. Quote: "Like most people, I assumed tobacco smoke and pollution were the problem -- this was the politically correct way to think. But these factors turned out not to play a major role. In high-pollution areas, in low-pollution areas, among all ethnic groups, there was asthma. Clearly, something else was involved." (Does Civilization Cause Asthma? By Ellen Ruppel Shell. The Atlantic Monthly, 2000 May;285(5):90-100, page 94.)

"Risks During Pregnancy: Regular exposure to secondhand smoke during early pregnancy doubles a woman’s risk of having a baby with low-birth weight, even if she did not smoke. Adults whose mother smoked when they were in the womb were more likely to have respiratory problems and poorer lung functions in adulthood." (The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke. SmokeFree Ohio. Accessed Jan. 18, 2008.)

All of the anti-smokers' studies are deliberately fraudulent because they designed to ignore the fact that chorioamnionitis is the real cause of the perinatal illnesses they blame on smoking and secondhand smoke. They have purposely covered up the enormous, gold-standard study by the National Institute of Neurological Disease and Stroke which proved this. The fact that premature births in the US have increased for over two decades, despite their persecution of smoking, is the definitive proof that the anti-smokers are lying.

"Pets: Secondhand smoke is not only bad for humans, but can increase a pet’s risk of disease. In a study, cats that were frequently exposed to secondhand smoke had a much higher risk of developing a common form of feline cancer." (The Dangers of Secondhand Smoke. SmokeFree Ohio. Accessed Jan. 18, 2008.)

This lie is based on the anti-smokers same deliberate, systematic scientific fraud of deliberately ignoring the role of infection in order to falsely blame tobacco. Working-class people's pets are probably like working class people in being more likely to be exposed to the carcionogenic viruses that are known to cause these cancers.

And for other supposed health risks, the anti-smokers simply cherry-pick whatever bogus study will serve their propaganda purposes, such as a claim that passive smokers are at a higher risk of breast cancer that they can't even claim for active smokers!

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals gave $10,000 to SmokeFree Ohio in 2005-2006. Pfizer also gave $25,000 to the Ohio Republican Party; $10,000 to Promoting Republicans You Can Elect Political Action Committee (Rep. Deborah Pryce, R); $8,000 to Leadership PAC 2006 (Michael G. Oxley, R); $6,000 to Buckeye PAC (Senator George V. Voinovich, R); $5,000 to Freedom Project (Rep. John A. Boehner, R); $5,000 to Ohio S 17 Star PAC (Mike DeWine, R); $4,500 to the Ohio House Republican Campaign Committee; $4,000 to the Republican Senate Campaign Committee; $2,500 to The Ohio Senate Democrats; $1,050 to the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus; $1,000 to the Care Political Action Committee (Rep. Ralph Regula, R); and $500 to the Ohio Senate Republican Caucus. (Pfizer PAC & Corporate Political Contributions Report 2005 – 2006 Cycle.) Pfizer also gave money to the failed Michigan smoking ban campaign, and donated extensively to politicians in Indiana and Illinois, and anti-smoker Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ.

Pfizer's other collaborations with health fascists: "Our relationships with stakeholders are at the heart of our corporate responsibility because they define what it means for Pfizer to create value. That is why Jeff Kindler, after being named CEO in July 2006, and the new senior management team met with a variety of stakeholders. They wanted to find out what was on stakeholders’ minds, what worked well—and what needed to be strengthened. Some of the company’s new priorities and actions are a result of these discussions. Here are just some of the stakeholders our senior management met with in the past year: American Heart Association, American Lung Association, American Medical Association, Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids," and 13 others, including the World Health Organization. (Operating with a New Stakeholder Model. Pfizer 2007 Corporate Responsibility Report, p10.) "Pfizer and the Pfizer Foundation are launching a new global initiative to support innovative public health partnerships in the areas of oncology and tobacco independence.... program partners in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina, Costa Rica and Venezuela will receive funds and technical assistance from the American Cancer Society for up to three years, starting in 2007".... In Argentina, "A Tiempo," launched in November 2006: "Pfizer’s objective is to encourage people to get periodical medical examinations, and to encourage people to make lifestyle changes—quit smoking and eat healthier foods—to stop behaviors that may trigger the disease... This campaign is being carried out in partnership with Lalcec (Argentine League Against Cancer)" (ibid., p40.)

Health fascist Pfizer meddles in its employees' lives: "A health risk assessment provides participants with a detailed personal report on their overall health status and potential risk factors. Results can be used to deliver personalized content to participants via the Healthy Pfizer Web site as well as help determine if a person qualifies for personalized health improvement and management programs... Pfizer offers two types of personalized health management programs that help participants achieve their health goals and/or manage a chronic condition or illness. These programs are managed by Matria and Gordian, both leading influencers in health improvement. The program managed by Matria helps employees manage chronic disease and become healthier, while the Gordian program addresses lifestyle risks such as smoking and obesity to prevent illness later on in life." All justified via the health establishment's systematic scientific fraud of deliberately using defective studies to falsely blame smoking and lifestyle for diseases caused by infection! (Healthy Pfizer. Pfizer Health Solutions, accessed Jan. 14, 2008.)

In 1996, Pfizer and Warner-Lambert entered into a co-marketing agreement on Lipitor, and in 2000, Pfizer acquired Warner-Lambert - the company put together by anti-smoking activist Elmer Bobst. In 2003, Pfizer bought Pharmacia, which manufactures the Nicorette Chewing Gum, the Nicotrol/Nicorette Patch, the Nicotrol/Nicorette Nasal Spray and the Nicotrol/Nicorette Inhaler. Sales of Nicorette were $295 million in 2004. In 2006, Johnson & Johnson (which funds the anti-smoking Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) acquired Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, which included Listerine mouthwash and Sudafed cold products as well as Nicorette products, for $16.6 billion in cash.

Pfizer's newest quit-smoking product is Chantix. The company claims that "There are receptors for nicotine in your brain. When you smoke, the nicotine you inhale attaches to these receptors. This sends a message to a different part of your brain to release a chemical called dopamine. Dopamine gives you a feeling of pleasure. But it does not last long. That's why your body craves more nicotine. This can become a vicious cycle." What they don't tell you is that all your other mental processes use those receptors, too. They are widely distributed and not specific for nicotine. Its side effects include "vivid, unusual, or increased dreaming," which suggests that it disrupts the process of memory consolidation. It was introduced in July 2006, and sales totaled $101 million in 2007. Chantix/Champix is the only smoking cessation product in Pfizer's 2006 Annual Report.

Pfizer's biggest seller, however, has been Lipitor, a statin drug touted to raise so-called "good" (according to health fascist dogma) cholesterol, with sales of $12.2 billion in 2005, the top annual tally for any drug, and $12.9 billion in 2006. The arthritis drug Celebrex had a high of $3.3 billion in 2004. Pfizer's patent on Zoloft, an antidepressant with $3.3 billion in 2005 sales, ran out in June 2006, and Pfizer stock has declined several points since June 2007.

Jeffrey B. Kindler, the CEO of Pfizer since 2006, was Executive Vice President, Corporate Relations and General Counsel of McDonald’s Corporation from 1997 to 2001. Other Pfizer directors include Constance J. Horner, Assistant to President George H. W. Bush and Director of Presidential Personnel from August 1991 to January 1993, Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from 1989 to 1991, and Director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management from 1985 to 1989, a director of Pfizer since 1993. William C. Steere, Jr., Chairman Emeritus (who retires from the board in 2007), is a Member of the Board of Overseers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a director of the New York University Medical Center.

Ohio History, Skull & Bones, and Health Fascism

Former Governor (1999-2007) Robert Alphonso Taft II

Bob Taft, the great-great grandson of Skull & Bones co-founder Alphonso Taft, graduated from Yale in 1963. His great-grandfather was William Howard Taft, S&B 1878; his grandfather was Sen. Robert Alphonso Taft (1889-1953, S&B 1910), and his father was Robert Taft (1917-1993). Robert A. Taft I was a U.S. Senator from 1939 to 1953. Robert Taft graduated from Yale in 1939, and was a Republican U.S. Representative between 1963 and 1965 and 1967 and 1971, and Senator from 1971 to 1976. He was a member of the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs.

Bob Taft lies through his teeth! "Governor Bob Taft today announced his support for Issue Five, the SmokeFreeOhio initiative proposed for the November 7 ballot, during a speech at the Association of Ohio Health Commissioners 2006 Fall Conference. The Issue Five ballot initiative, supported by the American Cancer Society, would create smoke-free public places and workplaces throughout the state....'While we are seeing progress in helping Ohioans to stop smoking, and empowering youth to decide to live tobacco-free lives, too many Ohioans are still being exposed to secondhand smoke in public places,' Taft said. 'Fortunately, we know that smoke-free indoor environments prevent exposure to secondhand smoke and the dangers it brings to non-smokers. That's why I am adding my voice to the support for the SmokeFreeOhio ballot initiative.'" He smugly claimed that "The U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona recently released a comprehensive report on secondhand smoke which concluded that nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their risk of heart disease by 25 to 30 percent and their risk of lung cancer increases by 20 to 30 percent." That is, the charlatan Surgeon General appointed by President George W. Bush, Skull & Bones 1968. This lying piece of scum knows that the whole anti-smoking movement is nothing but a gigantic fraud, engineered by Skull & Bones conspirators!

Members of The Order have played key roles on both sides of the anti-smoking movement, and the first thing they did was take over the tobacco companies. This is how they engineer the Hegelian false alternatives they inflict on the people!

Alphonso Taft, who moved to Ohio in 1840, was one of the founders of the Order of Skull & Bones at Yale University in 1833. In Cincinnati, he was a crony of James Handasyd Perkins, whose grandson, James H. Perkins, was chairman of the board of the National City Bank and president of the Farmers Loan and Trust. During the 1920s, Farmers became a major stockholder in the American Tobacco Company, and James H. Perkins was on American Tobacco's board of directors between 1926 and 1929. Perkins maintained the family ties with the Taft family as a crony of Alphonso's son, Henry Waters Taft (S&B 1880) was on the advisory committee of Yale's Institute of Human Relations. His brother, Thomas Nelson Perkins, was a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation, which runs Harvard University. In 1922, the Office of Cancer Investigations of the US Public Health Service at Harvard University (which was subsequently merged into the National Cancer Institute), was established at Harvard by Assistant Surgeon General Joseph W. Schereschewsky, who was a member of the Hygiene Reference Board of the Life Extension Institute. Former President William H. Taft (S&B 1878) was chairman of the board of the Life Extension Institute, which was formed in the boardroom of the Guaranty Trust in 1913. Its driving force was anti-smoker Irving Fisher (S&B 1888), and its purpose was to recruit the most powerful businessmen in the country into a conspiracy to impose health fascist tyranny on America.

And, the Taft family has held reunions for over 100 years at their place of original settlement in Mendon, Massachusetts.

William H. Taft's son, Charles P. Taft, Yale 1918, headed Republicans for Progress, one of whose members, John C. Topping Jr., engineered the US Environmental Protection Agency to issue its fraudulent report claiming that secondhand smoke causes lung cancer. "Mr. Taft never ran for Federal office, but was appointed to several Government jobs in Washington in the 1940's and 1950's.... A spokesman for the World Council of Churches described Mr. Taft as one of the most prominent laymen of the Episcopal Church in the United States. In 1947 and 1948, Mr. Taft served as the first lay president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the predecessor of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A." He was born in 1897 in Cincinatti, and was the brother of Sen. Robert A. Taft [S&B 1910]. He joined the firm of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister. (Charles P. Taft, former Mayor of Cincinnati. By Joseph B. Treastor. New York Times, Jun. 25, 1983.) Charles P. Taft's son, Seth C. Taft, was a partner in the Cleveland office of the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue. (Phyllis Yale Engaged to S. Tucker Taft. New York Times, May 2, 1982.)

William Howard Taft IV was the son of William Howard Taft III (1915-1991) and grandson of Robert A. Taft. He graduated from Yale in 1966 and Harvard Law School in 1969. "Taft served briefly as attorney adviser to the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission in 1970. From 1970 to 1973, he was the principal assistant to Caspar W. Weinberger, who was deputy director, then director, of the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President under President Richard Nixon. Taft assisted him in the management of the budgetary process, policy review, and program oversight for the entire federal government. Taft served from 1973 to 1976 as the executive assistant to the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. In April 1976 Taft was appointed by President Ford to serve as general counsel of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare... During the Carter administration, he was an attorney with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Leva, Hawes, Symington, Martin and Oppenheimer. In February 1981, as one of his first appointments, President Ronald Reagan appointed Taft as general counsel of the United States Department of Defense. Taft was then appointed Deputy Secretary of Defense and served from January 1984 to April 1989. He served as acting Secretary of Defense from January to March 1989 after George H. W. Bush became president." He was succeeded in this office by Richard B. Cheney. "During the Clinton administration, Taft entered private practice with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. After the election of 2000, George W. Bush appointed Taft to serve as chief legal advisor to the United States Department of State under Secretary of State Colin Powell, with whom he was reportedly friends." He resigned when Powell resigned. (William Howard Taft IV. Wikipedia, accessed 2/10/08.) He was a member of the Reagan transition team in 1980.(White House Transition Team. Washington Post, Feb. 18, 1980.) Roy L. Ash, for whom the Ash Council that created the US EPA was named, took Weinberger's OMB post in 1972, while Weinberger took Elliott Richardson's job at Health, Education and Welfare. (Most Government Shapers Kept During Second Term. By Eugene V. Risher. Williamsport Sun-Gazette, Dec. 6, 1972.) Mrs. William H. Taft 4th was an aide to Richardson while he was secretary of DHEW. (Julia Vadala Taft, Official Who Led Relief Efforts, Is Dead at 65. By Dennis Hevesi. New York Times, Mar. 18, 2008.) Ash was the boss at OMB of Fred Malek, who was a director of the crooked EPA contracting firm that handled the illegal pass-through contracts to the anti-smokers who wrote the "EPA" report on passive smoking.

Death to Skull & Bones and all their accomplices!

Ohio House of Representatives

In 2005-6, Pfizer gave $4,500 to the Ohio House Republican Campaign Committee.

Ohio House District 01, Linda S. Bolon (D-East Palestine)

Ohio House District 02, Jon M. Peterson (R-Delaware). Delaware County Heart Association Annual Drive

Ohio House District 03, Jim Carmichael (R-Wooster). Assistant Majority Floor Leader.

Ohio House District 04, Matt Huffman (R-Lima). Member of Health Committee Huffman was a co-sponsor of 127 H. B. No. 316, to allow smoking in cigar bars and in outdoor seating areas of restaurants that are at least 20 feet away from an entrance, exit, or window of the restaurant.

Ohio House District 05, Gerald L. Stebelton (R-Lancaster)

Ohio House District 06, Robert E. Latta (R-Bowling Green)

Ohio House District 07, Kenny Yuko (D-Richmond Heights). Member of Health Committee. Yuko was a co-sponsor of 127 H. B. No. 316, to allow smoking in cigar bars and in outdoor seating areas of restaurants that are at least 20 feet away from an entrance, exit, or window of the restaurant.

Ohio House District 08, Armond Budish (D-Beachwood)

Ohio House District 09, Barbara Boyd (D-Cleveland Heights). Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 10, Eugene R. Miller (D-Cleveland)

Ohio House District 11, Sandra Williams (D-Cleveland)

Ohio House District 12, Michael DeBose (D-Cleveland). Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 13, Michael Skindell (D-Lakewood)

Ohio House District 14, Mike Foley (D-Cleveland)

Ohio House District 15, Timothy J. DeGeeter (D-Parma). Received "Best Note" Award for distinguished legal writing (1996) for "The Politics of Reducing Tobacco Use Among Children & Adolescents: Why the FDA Cannot Regulate Tobacco and a Proposed Policy for States and Local Communities," Vol. 10 Journal of Law and Health, 367 (1996).

Ohio House District 16, Jennifer Brady (D-Westlake)

Ohio House District 17, Josh Mandel (R-Lyndhurst)

Ohio House District 18, Tom Patton (R- Strongsville)

Ohio House District 19, Larry L. Flowers (R-Canal Winchester). Majority Floor Leader. Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 20, Jim McGregor (R-Gahanna)

Ohio House District 21, Kevin Bacon (R-Village of Minerva Park)

Ohio House District 22, Jim Hughes (R-Clintonville)

Ohio House District 23, Larry Wolpert (R-Hilliard). Board of Directors - Columbus Cancer Clinic.

Ohio House District 24, Ted Celeste (D-Grandview Heights). He is the brother of Richard Celeste, chairman of the Health Effects Institute.

Ohio House District 25, Dan Stewart (D-Columbus)

Ohio House District 26, Tracy Heard (D-Columbus)

Ohio House District 27, Joyce Beatty (D-Columbus)

Ohio House District 28, James T. Raussen (R-Springdale). Member of Health Committee. Insurance Analyst with Great American Insurance

Ohio House District 29, Louis W. Blessing, Jr. (R-Cincinnati). Blessing was a co-sponsor of 127 H. B. No. 316, to allow smoking in cigar bars and in outdoor seating areas of restaurants that are at least 20 feet away from an entrance, exit, or window of the restaurant.

Ohio House District 30, Robert Mecklenborg (R)

Ohio House District 31, Steven L. Driehaus (D-Cincinnati). Minority Whip. Recipient: Eli Lilly Fellowship, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University.

Ohio House District 32, Dale Mallory (D-Cincinnati)

Ohio House District 33, Tyrone K. Yates (D-Cincinnati)

Ohio House District 34, Tom Brinkman, Jr. (R-Cincinnati)

Ohio House District 35, Michelle G. Schneider (R-Madeira). Assistant Majority Whip. Recipient: Distinguished Health Care Administrator of the Year (1989), American College of Health Care Administration; Ohio Health Advocacy Network Legislator of the Year (2004); Diabetes Advocate Award (2002). Schneider was a co-sponsor of 127 H. B. No. 316, to allow smoking in cigar bars and in outdoor seating areas of restaurants that are at least 20 feet away from an entrance, exit, or window of the restaurant.

Ohio House District 36, Arlene J. Setzer (R-Vandalia)

Ohio House District 37, Jon Husted (R-Kettering). Speaker of the House

Ohio House District 38, John J. White (R-Kettering). Chairman of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 39, Clayton Luckie (D-Dayton)

Ohio House District 40, Fred Strahorn (D-Dayton). Assistant Minority Whip. Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 41, Brian G. Williams (D-Akron). Ranking Minority Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 42, John Widowfield (R-Cuyahoga Falls)

Ohio House District 43, Stephen Dyer (D-Green)

Ohio House District 44, Vernon Sykes (D)

Ohio House District 45, Robert J. Otterman (D-Akron). Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 46, Mark D. Wagoner, Jr. (R-Toledo)

Ohio House District 47, Peter S. Ujvagi (D-Toledo)

Ohio House District 48, Edna Brown (D-Toledo). Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 49, Matt Szollosi (D-Oregon)

Ohio House District 50, John P. Hagan (R-Alliance)

Ohio House District 51, W. Scott Oelslager (R-North Canton). Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 52, William J. Healy, II (D-Canton)

Ohio House District 53, Shawn N. Webster (R-Hamilton)

Ohio House District 54, Courtney Eric Combs (R-Hamilton). Member of Hamilton-Fairfield Heart Association.

Ohio House District 55, Bill Coley (R-Liberty Township)

Ohio House District 56, Joseph Koziura (D-Lorain)

Ohio House District 57, Matt Lundy (D-Elyria)

Ohio House District 58, Matthew H. Barrett (D-Amherst)

Ohio House District 59, Ronald V. Gerberry (D)

Ohio House District 60, Robert F. Hagan (D-Youngstown). Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 61, Mark D. Okey (D-Carrollton)

Ohio House District 62, Lorraine M. Fende (D-Willowick). Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 63, Carol-Ann Schindel (R-Leroy Township). Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 64, Tom Letson (D-Warren). Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 65, Sandra Stabile Harwood (D-Niles)

Ohio House District 66, Joseph W. Uecker (R-Miami Township). Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 67, Shannon Jones (R-Springboro). Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 68, Kathleen Chandler (D-Kent)

Ohio House District 69, William G. Batchelder (R)

Ohio House District 70, Kevin DeWine (R-Fairborn). Speaker Pro Tempore

Ohio House District 71, Jay Hottinger (R-Newark). Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 72, Ross McGregor (R-Springfield)

Ohio House District 73, Jay P. Goyal (D)

Ohio House District 74, Bruce W. Goodwin (R-Defiance). Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 75, Lynn R. Wachtmann (R-Napoleon)

Ohio House District 76, Cliff Hite (R-Findlay)

Ohio House District 77, James J. Zehringer (R)

Ohio House District 78, John Adams (R-Sidney). Adams was a co-sponsor of 127 H. B. No. 316, to allow smoking in cigar bars and in outdoor seating areas of restaurants that are at least 20 feet away from an entrance, exit, or window of the restaurant.

Ohio House District 79, Diana M. Fessler (R-Bethel Township). Fessler was a co-sponsor of 127 H. B. No. 316, to allow smoking in cigar bars and in outdoor seating areas of restaurants that are at least 20 feet away from an entrance, exit, or window of the restaurant.

Ohio House District 80, Chris Redfern (D-Catawba Island Township). Member of Health Committee.

Ohio House District 81, Jeff Wagner (R-Sycamore)

Ohio House District 82, Steve Reinhard (R-Bucyrus)

Ohio House District 83, Tony Core (R-Rushsylvania)

Ohio House District 84, Chris Widener (R-Springfield)

Ohio House District 85, John M. Schlichter (R-Washington Court House)

Ohio House District 86, David T. Daniels (R-Greenfield)

Ohio House District 87, Clyde Evans (R-Rio Grande)

Ohio House District 88, Danny R. Bubp (R-West Union). Bubp was a co-sponsor of 127 H. B. No. 316, to allow smoking in cigar bars and in outdoor seating areas of restaurants that are at least 20 feet away from an entrance, exit, or window of the restaurant.

Ohio House District 89, T. Todd Book (D-McDermott). Assistant Minority Leader.

Ohio House District 90, Thom Collier (R-Mount Vernon). Distinguished Service Award, American Cancer Society.

Ohio House District 91, Dan Dodd (D-Hebron)

Ohio House District 92, Jimmy Stewart (R-Albany)

Ohio House District 93, Jennifer Garrison (D-Marietta)

Ohio House District 94, Jim Aslanides (R-Coshocton)

Ohio House District 95, John Domenick (D-Smithfield). Board of Directors, East Ohio Regional Hospital.

Ohio House District 96, Allan R. Sayre (D-Dover)

Ohio House District 97, Bob Gibbs (R-Lakeville). Leadership Award, Ohio Restaurant Association, 2005.

Ohio House District 98, Matthew J. Dolan (R-Novelty)

Ohio House District 99, L. George Distel (D-Conneaut)

Ohio State Senate

In 2005-6, Pfizer gave $4,000 to the Republican Senate Campaign Committee and and $500 to the Ohio Senate Republican Caucus, and $2,500 to The Ohio Senate Democrats.

Ohio Senate District 1, Steve Buehrer (R-Delta). Member of Health, Human Services and Aging Committee.

Ohio Senate District 2, Randy Gardner (R-Bowling Green). Majority Floor Leader. Vice Chair of Health, Human Services and Aging Committee.

Ohio Senate District 3, David Goodman (R-Columbus). Member of Health, Human Services and Aging Committee. Ohio Family Physicians-Legislator of the Year

Ohio Senate District 4, Gary Cates (R-West Chester). Cates was chief sponsor of 127 S. B. No. 195, to allow smoking in cigar bars and in outdoor seating areas of restaurants that are at least 20 feet away from an entrance, exit, or window of the restaurant.

Ohio Senate District 5, Tom Roberts (D-Trotwood)

Ohio Senate District 6, Jeff Jacobson (R-Butler Township). President Pro Tempore. J.D., University of Dayton; B.A., Yale University.

Ohio Senate District 7, Robert Schuler (R-Sycamore Township)

Ohio Senate District 8, Bill Seitz (R-Cincinnati). Member of Health, Human Services and Aging Committee. Seitz was chief sponsor of 127 H. B. No. 316, to allow smoking in cigar bars and in outdoor seating areas of restaurants that are at least 20 feet away from an entrance, exit, or window of the restaurant.

Ohio Senate District 9, Eric H. Kearney (D-Cincinnati)

Ohio Senate District 10, Steve Austria (R-Beavercreek). Majority Whip.

Ohio Senate District 11, Teresa Fedor (D-Toledo). Minority Leader. American Cancer Society - Public Policy award for work on Physical Education standards; 2004 Honor Award from OAHPERD (the Ohio Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance).

Ohio Senate District 12, Keith Faber (R-Celina)

Ohio Senate District 13, Sue Morano (D-Lorain). Registered Nurse. American Cancer Society Nurse of Hope (1986). Member of Health, Human Services and Aging Committee.

Ohio Senate District 14, Tom Niehaus (R-New Richmond)

Ohio Senate District 15, Ray Miller (D-Columbus). Minority Whip. American Public Health Association, Distinguished Legislator of the Year Award, 2004.

Ohio Senate District 16, Steve Stivers (R-Columbus)

Ohio Senate District 17, John Carey (R-Wellston)

Ohio Senate District 18, Timothy Grendell (R-Chesterland)

Ohio Senate District 19, Bill Harris (R-Ashland). Senate President.

Ohio Senate District 20, Joy Padgett (R-Coshocton). Member of Health, Human Services and Aging Committee.

Ohio Senate District 21, Shirley Smith (D-Cleveland). Ranking Minority Member of Health, Human Services and Aging Committee.

Ohio Senate District 22, Ron Amstutz (R-Wooster)

Ohio Senate District 23, Dale Miller (D). Member of Health, Human Services and Aging Committee.

Ohio Senate District 24, Robert F. Spada (R-North Royalton). Assistant Majority Floor Leader.

Ohio Senate District 25, Lance T. Mason (D-Cleveland). Assistant Minority Whip.

Ohio Senate District 26, Larry A. Mumper (R-Marion). Member of Health, Human Services and Aging Committee.

Ohio Senate District 27, Kevin Coughlin (R-Cuyahoga Falls). Chairman of Health, Human Services and Aging Committee.

Ohio Senate District 28, Tom Sawyer (D)

Ohio Senate District 29, Kirk Schuring (R-Canton). Member of Health, Human Services and Aging Committee.

Ohio Senate District 30, Jason H. Wilson (D-Columbiana)

Ohio Senate District 31, Tim Schaffer (R-Lancaster)

Ohio Senate District 32, Capri S. Cafaro (D-Hubbard). Member of Health, Human Services and Aging Committee. "Affiliations: Medicare Rights Center; International Federation on Aging; National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare; American Public Health Association; Global Health Council; Clinton Global Initiative; Board of Trustees, A. T. Still University of Health Science, Kirksville, Missouri."

Ohio Senate District 33, John Boccieri (D-New Middletown)

U.S. Senate

Sherrod Brown (D), is a co-sponsor of S-625, the Kennedy-Cornyn/Waxman bill for FDA regulation of tobacco.

George B. Voinovich (R). In 2005-6, Pfizer gave $6,000 to the Buckeye PAC, headed by Sen. Voinovich.

U.S. House of Representatives

District 1, Steve Chabot (R)

District 2, Jean Schmidt

District 3, Michael Turner

District 4, Jim Jordan

District 5, vacancy

District 6, Charles A. Wilson (D [Blue Dog])

District 7, David Hobson. Hobson received $1000 from Eli Lilly & Co. in 2006.

District 8, John A. Boehner (R) - Boehner is one of the despicable, spineless, cowardly smokers in Congress who refuse to hold the anti-smokers accountable for the scientific frauds they perpetrate at the expense of the taxpayers. In 2005-6, Pfizer gave $5,000 to the Freedom Project, headed by Rep. He received $5000 from Eli Lilly & Co. in 2006 and $3500 from Johnson & Johnson in 2008.

District 9, Marcy Kaptur

District 10, Dennis J. Kucinich (D) is a co-sponsor of HR-1108, the Kennedy-Cornyn/Waxman bill for FDA regulation of tobacco.

District 11, Stephanie Tubbs Jones - Jones received $1000 from Eli Lilly & Co. in 2006 and $1000 from Johnson & Johnson in 2008.

District 12, Patrick J. Tiberi (R) is a co-sponsor of HR-1108, the Kennedy-Cornyn/Waxman bill for FDA regulation of tobacco. He received $1000 from Johnson & Johnson in 2008.

District 13, Betty Sutton (D) is a co-sponsor of HR-1108, the Kennedy-Cornyn/Waxman bill for FDA regulation of tobacco.

District 14, Steven C. LaTourette

District 15, Deborah Pryce (D) "Pryce is a Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the House Cancer Caucus. She is the author of the Conquer Childhood Cancer Act, the Access to Cancer Therapies Act, the Compassionate Care for Children Act, and the Access to Cancer Clinical Trials Act. For her efforts and advocacy in the fight against cancer, Pryce was awarded the Congressional Leadership Award by the Alliance of Dedicated Cancer Centers (ADCC), and was recently inducted into the James Leadership Society of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center. In 2005-6, Pfizer gave $10,000 to Promoting Republicans You Can Elect Political Action Committee, headed by Rep. Pryce. In 2006, Pryce was awarded the Distinguished Advocacy Award from the American Cancer Society (ACS) – the ACS’s highest honor. She has also received national awards from the Komen Foundation, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and CureSearch – the advocacy arm of the Children’s Oncology Group." (Pryce, Cancer Leaders Celebrate New Resolve in Battle against Pediatric Cancer. Press Release, Sep. 27, 2007.) Pryce is a co-sponsor of HR-1108, the Kennedy-Cornyn/Waxman bill for FDA regulation of tobacco. She received $5000 from Eli Lilly & Co. and $1000 in 2006 from Johnson & Johnson in 2008.

District 16, Ralph Regula. In 2005-6, Pfizer gave $1,000 to the Care Political Action Committee headed by Rep. Regula.

District 17, Tim Ryan (D) is a co-sponsor of HR-1108, the Kennedy-Cornyn/Waxman bill for FDA regulation of tobacco.

District 18, Zachary T. Space

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Carol AS Thompson, Madison, Wisconsin