Stanton Arnold Glantz, Ph.D. (born 1946) is a prominent American professor, author, and tobacco control activist. Glantz is Professor of Medicine at the Division of Cardiology, American Legacy Foundation, Distinguished Professor of Tobacco Control, and director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. Glantz's research focuses on the health effects of tobacco smoking. Often called "Ralph Nader of the anti-tobacco movement," Glantz is an activist for the rights of non-smokers and advocates of public health policy to reduce smoking. He is the author of four books, including The Cigarette Paper and Primary of Biostatistics. Glantz is also a member of the UC San Francisco Cardiovascular Research Institute and the Institute for Health Policy Studies and co-leader of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center Comprehensive Tobacco Program. He was elected at the Institute of Medicine in 2005.
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Early life and education
Glantz is the first child of two children, born in Cleveland, Ohio, Louis Glantz, insurance salesman, and Frieda, a real estate broker. As a young man, Gantz paid great attention to the Soviet Sputnik 1 satellite. He is a member of the Boy Scouts of America, where he achieved top-ranked Eagle Scout, and earned Bronze Palm for further achievements.
Glantz obtained a BSc in aerospace engineering from the University of Cincinnati in 1969, an MSc in applied mechanics from Stanford University in 1970, and in 1973, a PhD from Stanford in applied mechanics (concentrating on human heart mechanics) and economic systems ( EES was a Stanford department created in the late 1960s, integrating computers and techniques in "system methods and economic analysis for engineering problems involving policy and decision making, both in government and industry"). Along with his studies, he worked at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, first as a trainee student, then as an aerospace engineer. In 1973, Glantz conducted postdoctoral research on mathematical modeling of cardiac tissue at Stanford, and later at UCSF, where he has worked since 1977.
He served for 10 years as Associate Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and is a member of the California State Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air Contaminants from California Air Resources Board.
She is married to Marsha, a nursing home nurse, and the father of journalist Aaron Glantz and her daughter Frieda Glantz.
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Research
Glantz conducted research on various issues including the effects of passive smokers in the heart by studying the reduction of heart attacks observed when the non-smoking policy was enacted, and how the tobacco industry fought against tobacco control programs. His research on the effects of passive smokers on blood and blood vessels concluded that, in terms of heart disease, the effects of passive smoking are almost as great as smoking. One such study showed a large and rapid reduction in the number of hospitalized people with heart attacks in Helena, Montana, after the community made all the workplace and public places smokefree.
Glantz is the author or co-author of numerous publications relating to tobacco smoke and tobacco control, as well as many papers on cardiovascular and biostatistical functions. He has written several books, including the widely used Primer of Biostatistics (which has been translated into Japanese, French, Russian, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish), and Primary of Applied Regression and Analysis of Variance . In total, he is the author of 4 books and over 200 scientific papers, including the first major review (published in Circulation ) that identifies passive smokers as causes of heart disease and landmarks 1995 Summary of American Medical Journal Association from Brown & amp; The Williamson document, which shows that the tobacco industry knows nicotine is addictive and that smoking causes cancer 30 years ago.
This publication was followed up with his book, The Cigarette Papers , which has played a key role in the ongoing litigation surrounding the tobacco industry. His book Tobacco Wars: Inside the California Battles tells the last quarter of activism against the tobacco industry in California.
Working with the UCSF Library, Glantz helped make nearly 50 million pages of prior secret tobacco industry documents available via the Internet at the Legacy Tobacco Document Library and the Archives of the British American Tobacco Archives.
In February 2013, a paper by Glantz was published in the journal Tobacco Control. Titled "'For the rear quarterback, third party effort': the tobacco industry and Tea Party", this paper explains how the Tea Party political movement is funded and organized by organizations created by tobacco companies.
In March 2014, Glantz released a study claiming that "the use of electric cigarettes exacerbates rather than improves the tobacco epidemic among young people." Thomas J. Glynn, a researcher at the American Cancer Society, replied that "The data in this study do not allow for many of the broad conclusions it draws"
Activism
Glantz has been a leading researcher and activist in the non-activist rights movement since 1978, when he helped lead a country initiative campaign that failed to enact a popular non-smoker rights law. In 1983, he helped successfully defend the San Francisco Workplace Ordinance against tobacco-backed efforts to uproot it through a referendum. San Francisco's victory represents the first electoral defeat of a tobacco-sponsored referendum, and is now seen as a major turning point in the battle for non-smokers rights. He is one of America's founders for Nonsmokers' Rights.
In 1982 he was part of a group of health activists who revived copies of the last remaining film Death in the West, previously pressured by Philip Morris, and developed an accompanying mini course for grade 5 to 10 students. which has been used by more than one million students. She helped write and produce Cigarette Smoke films, relating to the health effects of unintentional smoking, and 120,000 Life, which provides evidence that smoking in movies recruits teenage smokers and apply for solutions to reduce this effect. He also wrote Tobacco: Biology and Politics for high school students and The Uninvited Guest, a story about passive smoking, for second graders.
In May, 1994, Glantz was received at his UCSF office two boxes containing 4,000 documents leaked from Brown & amp; Williamson, the third largest cigarette manufacturer in the US at the time. The material provides the first definitive evidence that the tobacco industry has known for 30 years that nicotine is addictive and causes cancer, and has concealed that knowledge from the public. The documents are a milestone in tobacco litigation, medical scholarship, government policy, and corporate information control. With four authors, Glantz analyzed the documents and, with extensive citations, published the findings as The Cigarette Papers .
Glantz appeared in several investigative documentary films:
Glantz is also the opposite of the Tobacco Coal Settlement Agreement (MSA), the "global settlement" of proposed tobacco litigation in 1996, where the tobacco industry was granted de facto immunity from further litigation in exchange for payments to state and regulatory acceptance by the US Food and Drug Administration. The tobacco industry turned against and defeated this compromise, and defeated the law introduced in Congress by Senator John McCain (R-AZ), after several public health advocates managed to get the immunity provisions removed. Many "global settlement" provisions - but not immunities or FDA provisions - are applied by (MSA) between the attorney general of 46 states and major tobacco companies. Glantz's analysis of the two agreements concludes that the MSA includes most of the desirable requirements of a global settlement without immune provisions. In particular, the provision of immunity in the global settlement will prevent the large (and successful) Rape lawsuits filed by the US Department of Justice against the tobacco industry in 2007. Now he runs two websites, SmokeFreeMovies, which works to end depiction of tobacco use in films, and TobaccoScam, which opposes tobacco industry engagement in the hospitality industry.
Controversy
Known for being rough and abusive, Glantz embraces his public image and his controversial position about smoking, sometimes wearing "Here Comes Trouble" t-shirts.
On December 6, 2017, a former postdoctoral researcher in the Glantz department filed a complaint of sexual harassment against him in San Francisco Superior Court. He alleged that Glantz subjected him to a variety of sensitive misogynous, racial and sexual behaviors from 2015 to 2017. The alleged victim also claimed that, when he complained about abuse of the university, Glantz retaliated by removing his name from a research paper he had written.
Awards and honors
In 2005, he was elected at the prestigious Institute of Medicine.
References
External links
- Tobacco Control Research and Education Center
- SmokeFreeMovies
- TobaccoScam
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