Tobacco’s Deadly Secret: The Impact of Tobacco Marketing on Women and Girls

Date: May 14, 2002
Time: 10:15am
Location: 342 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Agenda:

This Subcommittee’s hearing will focus on the health impact of smoking on women and girls, the impact of tobacco industry marketing on smoking rates among women and girls, and about steps that the U.S. Government is taking and should take to address this epidemic of smoking-related disease among women.

Witnesses

Panel I

Cassandra

Coleman

accompanied by children Nzingha and Nijell

Panel I

Elizabeth

Whelan, ScD, MA, MPH

American Council on Science and Health

Panel I

Charles

King, JD, PhD

Harvard Business School

Cambridge

Panel II

Cristina

Beato, M.D.

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Panel II

Diane

Stover, M.D., FCCP

Head, Division of General Medicine; Chief, Pulmonary Service

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Panel II

Matt

Myers

President

National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids