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American Cancer Society recognizes international tobacco control leaders
Date:12/12/2008

ldwide achievement in the field of tobacco control and will be presented during a special ceremony on Wednesday, March 11, in Mumbai, India, as part of the 14th World Conference on Tobacco OR Health. The winners are as follows:

  • The United States' Stanton Arnold Glantz, Ph.D., will receive the Distinguished Career Award.
  • The Ministry of Health of the Government of Uruguay will be given the award for Exemplary Leadership by a Government Ministry.
  • The United States' Ronald M. Davis, M.D., and India's K. Srinath Reddy, M.D., D.M., M.Sc., F.A.M.S., will receive the award for Outstanding Individual Leadership.
  • The InterAmerican Heart Foundation will receive the Outstanding Organization award.
  • K. Michael Cummings, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the United States will receive the award for Outstanding Research Contribution.
  • The United States' Dileep G. Bal, M.D., M.P.H., M.S., and Thailand's Hatai Chitanondh, M.D., F.I.C.S., F.R.C.S. (T.), will be given the award for Outstanding Community Service.

Stanton Arnold Glantz, Ph.D., (United States) has been a leader in tobacco control for more than 30 years and is widely recognized as one of the world's outstanding tobacco control advocates and researchers. Dr. Glantz is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and leads the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. He is the author of three books and more than 150 scientific papers, including the first major review that identified involuntary smoking as a cause of heart disease and the landmark July 19, 1995, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that demonstrated that the tobacco industry had known for decades that nicotine was addictive and that smoking caused cancer. He has played a vital role in making tens of millions of pages of industry documents available to tobacco control and public health researchers by establishing the Legacy Toba
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