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Alexandria, Louisiana
Jan 9, 2008

ABC 31 News
KALB (NBC) News Channel 5, Live at Noon 1/9/2008

Patrick Reynolds: "It will be decades before we have reliable data on whether this cigarette is truly safer; it takes 20 to 30 years to get the heart and lung disease smoking causes. Will it 5% safer or 25% safer? It's like jumping off the 10th floor instead of the 20th floor. The only safe thing to do is to quit.

"Twenty states have now passed laws providing for 100% smokefree bars and restaurants -- eighteen of them in the past four years alone... Phillip Morris, watch out!"

CBS Early Show
March 14, 2007, 7:53am

Banning smoking everywhere
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The town of Belmont, CA is considering a ban of smoking in apartments [with shared ventilation systems]

Interviewed: Patrick Reynolds of Smokefree America, and Esther Schiller of the Smokefree Apartment House Registry

“There’s a clear link between the percentage of characters who smoke in films and the rate of youth smoking,” Patrick Reynolds... Reynolds said he applauded the idea of a mandatory R rating, but he said it was probably more practical to seek voluntary restraint from filmmakers, along with the screening of anti-smoking ads before movies and regulatory oversight to ensure that tobacco companies don’t pay production companies to put tobacco branding in their pictures.

MSNBC
March 3, 2007
More colleges ban smoking on campus
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Debate between Patrick Reynolds and
Gary Nolan, The Smoker's Club

Smoking in cars with children present (several networks)

MSNBC, Debate, January 19, 2007
CNBC, Power Lunch, Debate, January 22, 2007
Fox News Channel, Weekend Live, Debate, January 28, 2007

Proposals for smoking bans in cars with kids are cropping up around the country, with Patrick Reynolds, Foundation For A SmokeFree America Executive Director; Gary Nolan, The Smoker's Club Spokesman and CNBC's Sue Herera.

5 city press tour of Ohio

Competing Ohio Ballot Measures:
Issue 5: Statewide 100% Smokefree Restaurants & Bars
Issue 4: R.J. Reynolds sponsored statewide measure to permit smoking

October 27, 2006
Toledo

October 26, 2006
Cincinnatti and Dayton

October 25, 2006
Cleveland and Columbus

Kansas City, MO, Channel 9 KMBC (ABC), Channel 4 WDAF (FOX)
Missouri Amendment 3 | Cigarette tax
Press conference in Kansas City, MO
October 17, 2006

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KMBZ FM Radio, WAV audio file, 8:20am, October 18, 2006

Tampa FL, Channel 10 (CBS)
Anti-smoking advocate denounces family ties to the tobacco industry
In the school auditorium at Middleton High Wednesday morning, Patrick Reynolds took the stage, microphone in hand, and began telling his story....

May 10, 2006

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Reynolds, to teens during a talk at a high school in Somerset County, NJ: "By making itself the outlaw rebel of the tobacco industry, who do you think RJ Reynolds is positioning itself to appeal to?" Shows the audience RJR's candy flavored cigarette ads, and RJR's Kool packages with a DJ, hip-hop artist and youth party on recent packaging.

... News anchor, concluding story: Reynolds says New Jersey is doing very little to shield kids from the dangers that lurk in their first puff. He's calling for higher levels of funding for the State's youth tobacco prevention programs -- specifically to designate more than just 1% of the more than $1 billion the State collects each year in tobacco revenues. He applauds the Garden State for its $2.40 per pack cigarette tax and the recent Clean Indoor Air Act.

Fox News Channel
Are tobacco tax hikes fair to smokers?
Neil Cavuto, Your World
March 27, 2006

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CBS Evening News
Repeated next morning on affiliates
March 20, 2006

"While executives of the tobacco giant [RJR] say the timing of all this is coincidental to Chicago's smoking ban, R.J. Reynolds’ anti-smoking grandson says he doubts that. 'It really is an in-your-face effort to say, 'Hey, here is a bar where we found a loophole where you can still smoke. It is a rebellion on the part of R.J. Reynolds,' says Patrick Reynolds."

CNBC
On the Money with Dylan Ratigan
Patrick Reynolds: "Companies should not be able to fire smokers simply because they smoke at home."
December 21, 2005

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MSNBC TV
Tucker Carlson
Debate about the new, "safer" cigarette
November 7, 2005
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Fox News Channel
Your World with Neil Cavuto
Should NW Airlines ask employees to quit smoking, to reduce the airline's health insurance costs?
October 19, 2005
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Fox News Channel
Your World with Neil Cavuto
A broken promise to our kids -- States not spending Big Tobacco's lawsuit payments on tobacco prevention programs, despite proven success in several States
December 13, 2002
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CNN
Talkback Live
Should the legal age to buy tobacco be raised to 21?
February 21, 2002
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CBS
The Early Show
Tobacco lawsuit awards $145 billion to FL smokers
Should these lawsuits be allowed?
July 18, 2000
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Patrick Reynolds' new DVD for families
A Talk With Your Kids About Smoking
Excerpts from our new video for families, of Patrick Reynolds' live talk for grades 7 thru 12.
Release date: July 1, 2005
Selection of online video clips