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The
Tobacco Dependence Program (TDP) is dedicated to reducing the
harm to health caused by tobacco use. The TDP particularly aims
to provide expertise on quitting smoking for those who need
it most.
We do this through education, treatment, research and advocacy.
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The
John Slade NJ Tobacco Control
Activist
of the Year Award |
National
Conference May 28, 2004 |
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 About
the first recipient of the John Slade NJ Tobacco Control
Activist of the Year Award, Regina Carlson
In 1969 Regina Carlson bought a “No Smoking”
sign in a hardware store and put it on her front door.
Since then, she has worked with citizens, legislators,
and businesses to secure smokefree air for nonsmokers,
to ensure tobacco-free lives for children, and to confront
the tobacco industry. She has encouraged and assisted
more workplaces and public places to go smokefree than
probably any other person in the United States.
She
is Executive Director of the New Jersey Group Against
Smoking Pollution (GASP), which she co-founded in 1974.
She has served on dozens of boards, coalitions, and
committees and as a consultant to government and business.
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Frances
Slade's remarks at the presentation of the Award...
The following was stated about this year’s recipient
in a letter of support: ‘thirty years ago, there
were no lawsuits against the tobacco companies, there
was no Master Settlement Agreement, there was no government
tobacco control program, there was no funding. But thirty
years ago, there was Regina Carlson, who was tired of
breathing other people’s tobacco smoke and decided
to do something about it’. And so, Regina Carlson
started NJ Gasp, an organization whose goals are to
secure smokefree air for nonsmokers and to ensure tobacco-free
lives for children. Because there was no funding, NJ
GASP opened for the business of advocacy in Regina’s
living room, where it is still housed today. Regina
Carlson’s contributions are many. She has been
a dedicated advocate of smoke-free legislation, testifying
before state decision makers, gathering petitions, and
taking leadership positions in NJ advocacy organizations
like NJ GASP and NJ Breathes, to name a few. She has
mentored hundreds of tobacco control advocates both
here in NJ and abroad, and she has been called the ‘mother
of tobacco control in NJ’. John Slade and Regina
worked together for many years on a shared vision of
tobacco-free lives for people, and we are sure that
Dr. Slade would find Ms. Carlson incredibly deserving
of this award today. As Regina Carlson has truly paved
the way for so many of us here, the Awards Committee
has unanimously voted to award Ms. Regina Carlson as
the first John Slade NJ Tobacco Control Activist of
the Year…. |
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 Dr.
John Slade was a tireless crusader in the fight to stop
the harm caused by tobacco use and was the founder and
visionary of Addressing Tobacco in the Treatment of
Other Addictions and the Tobacco Dependence Program
in NJ. He co-edited the first comprehensive clinical
textbook on nicotine addiction, and he was on the team
that first analyzed a set of previously secret documents
from the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, analyses
which were then published as a series of groundbreaking
articles in JAMA (1995) and in the book, The Cigarette
Papers. These publications set the stage for
the Master Settlement Agreement by defining cigarettes
as a lethal “drug delivery device” that the tobacco
industry knowingly and duplicitously marketed.
Dr. David Kessler, former FDA Commissioner, credits
Dr. Slade with playing a major role in influencing the
FDA’s fight against tobacco. Former president
and CEO of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Dr. Steven
Schroeder, called Dr. Slade, "one of the authentic
heroes in the anti-tobacco movement. Though quiet and
self-effacing, he saved thousands of lives. We all owe
him a great debt." To learn more about Dr.
Slade, please visit the John Slade
Memorial page. |
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About
the Award
This
NJ state award seeks both to commemorate and remember
the many achievements of Dr. John Slade and seeks to
honor an individual, who, like Dr. Slade, possesses
an advocate’s spirit, and demonstrates leadership and/or
achievement in the field of tobacco control. This
award will be presented at the Tobacco Dependence Program’s
Annual Conference on May 28, 2004.
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