HOST INTRO In January of this year, the state of California Air Resource Board came up with a resolution defining environmental tobacco smoke, or ETS, as a toxic air contaminant that requires standards and regulations. The Office of the Environmental Health Hazard Assessment states that exposure to ETS is directly associated with a variety of adverse health effects described as developmental, respiratory, carcinogenic, and cardiovascular. They include, but no limited to, heart disease, lung cancer, nasal sinus cancer, and breast cancer in young women. Now, what's significant here is there is no doubt about these effects, and smoke is being classified, I guess, as a Class One toxin. My concern here has always been that even very smart progressive people still smoke despite how despicable the tobacco companies have been and clear the evidence has been. Now, I know it's a powerful addiction, but is it worth sacrificing yourself, your children, and even unwitting members of the public? My guest today is anti-tobacco activist, Dr. Stanton Glantz, professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He's well known for the publication of the cigarette papers, a collection of internal documents, leaked to him from Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation.

HOST INTRO In January of this year, the state of California Air Resource Board came up with a resolution defining environmental tobacco smoke, or ETS, as a toxic air contaminant that requires standards and regulations. The Office of the Environmental Health Hazard Assessment states that exposure to ETS is directly associated with a variety of adverse health effects described as developmental, respiratory, carcinogenic, and cardiovascular. They include, but no limited to, heart disease, lung cancer, nasal sinus cancer, and breast cancer in young women. Now, what's significant here is there is no doubt about these effects, and smoke is being classified, I guess, as a Class One toxin. My concern here has always been that even very smart progressive people still smoke despite how despicable the tobacco companies have been and clear the evidence has been. Now, I know it's a powerful addiction, but is it worth sacrificing yourself, your children, and even unwitting members of the public? My guest today is anti-tobacco activist, Dr. Stanton Glantz, professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He's well known for the publication of the cigarette papers, a collection of internal documents, leaked to him from Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation.