Smokefree Advocate
Program Titles
- Tobacco Wars: The Truth about Tobacco
- Empowers audiences to make more responsible choices about drugs and alcohol
- RJ Reynolds family
- Ban of smoking on all US domestic flights
Patrick Reynolds is a grandson of the tobacco company founder, R.J. Reynolds, but the family’s brands, Camel and Winston, killed his father and eldest brother.
This nationally known speaker combines tobacco education with motivational speaking.
Local press coverage of his talks will carry the tobacco free message to your community, and this will build excellent goodwill for sponsors.
“In a little over an hour, Reynolds went from being just another anti-tobacco speaker to something special,” commented a front page story in one local newspaper.
He also offers a highly motivational lecture program for universities, health conferences and community members.
Reynolds met in Washington DC with U.S. Congressman Henry Waxman to offer his support for the bill for FDA regulation of tobacco. The bill was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in June, 2009.
Reynolds was invited to Greece by Health Minister Avramopoulos to call attention to the serious health hazards posed by second hand smoke and tobacco use. There was strong Greek news coverage; Reynolds was profiled in numerous national Greek media outlets.
He hopes to meet publicly in each country with the Health Minister, and speak to children in schools to call public attention to the problem of tobacco use, as he did in Greece.
Reynolds has spoken before dozens of municipal and State legislatures in support of proposed smoking ordinances which became law. He has campaigned for numerous State cigarette tax increases, FDA regulation of tobacco, statewide 100% smoking bans, and laws to limit youth access to cigarettes.
He has also approached several members of the US Congress about the aggressive advertising of US brands in the Third World and Asia.
Humanitarian of the Year award
Books by Patrick Reynolds
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