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...Mark Pertschuk, executive director of the national organization Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights, based in Berkeley, California, thinks another historical paradigm is more apt. Around the turn of the century, chewing tobacco was popular, and spittoons were commonplace in bars and restaurants. When an epidemic of tuberculosis broke out and the disease was linked to spittoons, a doctors' group that eventually became the American Lung Association campaigned to have them removed. "At the time, it was considered to be outrageous and anti-American to get rid of spittoons," says Pertschuk. "When historians look back on this ((smoking)) controversy in 25 years...
...side charged. "An energetic display of political distortion, half-baked ideas and the big-lie technique," countered the other. The latest salvos in the presidential campaign? No, just samples of the recent invective between James Miller, chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, and the man he replaced, Commissioner Michael Pertschuk. A staunch consumer advocate whose seven-year term at the FTC expired last week, Pertschuk left office fightin', feudin' and fumin'. He accused Miller, a Reagan appointee, of deliberately sidetracking the FTC's mission to protect consumers against unfair and deceptive business practices. "While they have...
...action, which permits the partners to build up to 250,000 autos a year, was also strongly opposed by Commissioners Michael Pertschuk and Patricia Bailey. Pertschuk called the venture "a classic antitrust violation...
...decision was delayed, though, by an internal squabble among the FTC commissioners. Chairman James Miller, a Reagan appointee known for his pro-business views, was eager to drop the suit. Michael Pertschuk, a zealous consumer advocate who was commission chairman under President Carter, was just as adamant to keep it going. In December the two other commissioners, Patricia Bailey and David Clanton, both moderate Republicans, voted with Pertschuk to hear more arguments. By last week, however, Bailey and Clanton had switched sides. Clanton concluded that no cereal monopoly exists. Bailey decided that, monopoly or no, the proposed punishment was inappropriate...
Commission Chairman Michael Pertschuk, who was appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1977, has become the lightning rod of criticism against the FTC. An ebullient, Yale-trained lawyer with a crusader's rapid-fire zeal, Pertschuk has further raised the ire of both congressional leaders and business. Senator Ford accuses him of turning the agency from law enforcement to social planning. Last year a federal judge banned Pertschuk from all involvement in the children's television case, concluding that he had become too biased against the cereal companies. Other critics charged that Pertschuk was an intemperate, excessive regulator...