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...explicit warning labels on cigarette packages. Among the proposed candidates: "Warning: Cigarette smoking is the number one cause of emphysema and lung cancer"; "Warning: Cigarette smoking is a major cause of heart disease"; "Warning: Cigarette smoking by pregnant women may result in birth defects or spontaneous abortion." Says John Banzhaf, executive director of Action on Smoking and Health, a consumer group: "So far, the Surgeon General's report is the only positive thing this Administration has done on the smoking and health issue...
...Banzhaf said the course teaches law students how to be public interest lawyers, adding "This case will test the limits and concepts of society which is moving towards equality of sexes...
...nothing can be done. So much is made of rules and regulations, of the idea that 'you had better check it out first.' We become very dependent on others to give us cues. This fosters a lack of self-confidence. We become afraid to act." As Ralph Nader, John Banzhaf and other consumer crusaders have proved, the determined complainer can do plenty. For their part, companies could respond by following the example of Avis, TWA and a few other firms. They assign executives to work briefly at service jobs?as counter clerks or even car washers and baggage handlers?...
Marble Soup. Last fall Banzhaf taught a course in unfair trade practices at the George Washington University law school. He so inspired his 60 students that they split up into activist groups and fanned out to do battle, a la Nader's Raiders, as Banzhafs Bandits. Examples...
While some of the causes are strictly of glass-marble dimension and few campaigns have gone on long enough to achieve hard results, Banzhaf is confident that his squad of 60 will win more rounds than it loses...