Role in the Tobacco Control Community

Current:

• New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services' Comprehensive Tobacco Control Program (as a tobacco-free community partner CDC grantee)
  

• New Jersey Breathes statewide smoke-free coalition (as a charter member; with logistical support provided by the Medical Society of New Jersey)
  

• Atlantic County Smokefree Air Coalition (as a charter member; community organization comprised of residents and workers of Atlantic County, and tobacco control advocates, who are concerned about the effects of secondhand smoke on casino workers and patrons)
  
  
• Tobacco Control Legal Consortium (as an Affiliated Legal Resource Center; legal resource centers collaborate to support tobacco control policy change, by giving advocates better access to legal expertise)

• 2009 National Conference on Tobacco or Health (as co-chair of legal track sessions)
  

Past:

• STAT (Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco), a national organization
  

• the New Jersey State Commission on Smoking OR Health
  

• the New Jersey ASSIST (American Stop Smoking Intervention Study) Coalition of the National Cancer Institute, the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, and the American Cancer Society, New Jersey Division
  

• Consumers for Civil Justice.

updated January 25, 2010

This information is created by the Tobacco Control Policy and Legal Resource Center of New Jersey GASP, which provides expert information, guidance, and technical assistance about policy, legislation, and litigation, especially regarding smokefree air. Major funding for this service is provided by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJ DHSS).The information presented on this website is not intended as, nor to be construed, or used, as legal advice, and should not be used to replace the advice of your legal counsel.