PATRICK REYNOLDS’ NEWS INTERVIEWS AND TV DEBATES
For video clips from Mr. Reynolds’ live talks, see tobaccofree.org/clips
CGTV CCTV America
May 31, 2015
Patrick Reynolds on the global no smoking campaign, on World No Tobacco Day
On World No Tobacco Day 2015, CCTV’s Susan Roberts spoke to Patrick Reynolds about the global campaign to reduce smoking rates. Mr. Reynolds offers his unique perspective and insight on tobacco issues, and in the larger picture, on regulation itself. Tobacco is a good example of how regulation — in this case, smoking bans, tobacco taxes, mass ad campaigns, and education in public schools — can be an effective tool for policy makers, and government at its best.
Al Jazeera English
January 8th, 2014
50th Anniversary of US Surgeon General’s first report on smoking
Patrick Reynolds outlines government policies which caused major drops in smoking rates in nations which have implemented them.
NBC Nightly News – Profile
February 19, 1988
Patrick Reynolds – American Story with Bob Dotson
Four-minute profile of Patrick Reynolds on the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, broadcast on February 19, 1988. Patrick Reynolds is interviewed at his father’s private Sapelo Island, GA, and gives, “one of the most personal interviews I’ve given.
WFXL-Fox-TV Albany GA
March 19, 2013
Middle schoolers hear from unlikely anti-tobacco advocate
Other local coverage: Students hear of dangers of tobacco use – Tifton (GA) Gazette (Front page), WFXL-Fox T-Time, Local TV talk show, WALB-ABC-TV, Tifton Gazette advance story
Al Jazeera English
June 21, 2011
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FDA’s graphic new warnings on tobacco products
The FDA’s graphic new cigarette warning labels are a major landmark in the fight against tobacco in the US. The labels are required on 50% of the front and back of all cigarette packs starting in September, 2012. The United States joins 43 other countries that already require similar labels.
Al Jazeera
The Riz Khan Show
January 5, 2011
Tobacco giants are marketing heavily to a new generation of customers in developing nations. “As they have in the past, they’re using tobacco farmers as pawns in a bid to deflect attention away from the health issues,” says Patrick Reynolds of tobaccofree.org. Mr. Reynolds debates the chief executive of the International Tobacco Growers’ Association. Their impassioned discussion sheds light on international tobacco issues, cigarette company tactics and the main points of the UN’s global treaty on tobacco.
MSNBC
October 14, 2010
Big Tobacco Sues NYC
Debate over a lawsuit filed by three tobacco companies against the city of New York over mandated graphic warning ads at all tobacco points of sale
Fox News Channel
Opening Bell
June 22nd, 2009
Obama Signs Bill for
FDA Regulation of Tobacco
Guest Patrick Reynolds explains the bill for FDA regulation of tobacco, and his plans to tour in China, India, Russia, the Middle East, and other nations where smoking rates are high
KCBS-TV Los Angeles
June 22, 2009
Patrick Reynolds: An Unlikely Advocate for FDA Regulation of Tobacco
Fox News Channel
July 27, 2008
Global Fight Against Smoking
The Bloomberg and Gates Foundations jointly give $500 million to fight smoking in poorer nations. Guest Patrick Reynolds applauds the focus on nations where smoking rates are highest, and talks about his Foundation’s plan to send him on tour in China, India, Russia, and the Middle East
SKAI-TV Network
April 27, 2009
Media profile in Greece
Mr. Reynolds was invited by the Greece’s Minister of Health to build public awareness of the dangers of smoking and second hand smoke. His visit attracted major national press coverage in Greece. Following his visit, the Minister sent a strong letter of recommendation about his experience with Mr. Reynolds, intended as a testimonial to be sent to other Health Ministers. It’s included in Tobaccofree.org’s proposal to Health Ministers to invite Mr. Reynolds to go on a press tour of their nation, raising awareness about tobacco. His proposal will be sent to the governments of China, India, Russia and to the UN World Health Organization’s complete list of Health Ministers
Korean Supreme Master TV TV News profile with subtitles in 17 languages
April 4, 2009
World Hero Award presented to Patrick Reynolds by Korean Supreme Master TV
Mr. Reynolds is interviewed during a 13-minute profile, with subtitles in 17 languages. See also the video clips from live talks and scroll down to Supreme Master TV’s The Truth About Tobacco, his entire talk for youth, subtitled in 17 languages.
Fox News Channel Brett Baier
June 24, 2007
Quitting more effective than Phillip Morris’ safer cigarette
Patrick Reynolds: “It will be decades before we have reliable data on whether this cigarette is truly safer; it takes 20 to 30 years to get the heart and lung disease smoking causes. Will it 5% safer or 25% safer? It’s like jumping off the 10th floor instead of the 20th floor. The only safe thing to do is to quit. Twenty states have now passed laws providing for 100% smokefree bars and restaurants —
eighteen of them in the past four years alone… Phillip Morris, watch out!”
CBS Early Show
March 14, 2007
Banning smoking everywhere
The town of Belmont, CA is considering a ban of smoking in apartments with shared ventilation systems.
Guests: Patrick Reynolds of Tobaccofree Earth, and Esther Schiller of the Smokefree Apartment House Registry
MSNBC
March 13, 2007
Movie industry under pressure to
limit audiences for films with smoking
“There’s a clear link between the percentage of characters who smoke in films and the rate of youth smoking,” said Patrick Reynolds… Reynolds approved a mandatory R rating, but added it was more practical to seek voluntary restraint from filmmakers, along with theaters voluntarily running anti-smoking ads before movies, and regulatory oversight to ensure that tobacco companies don’t pay production companies to put tobacco brands in their pictures.
MSNBC
March 3, 2007 More colleges ban smoking on campus
Debate between Patrick Reynolds and Gary Nolan, The Smoker’s Club
MSNBC Afternoon Debate
January 16, 2007
CNBC, Power Lunch; MSNBC Morning Debate, January 22, 2007
Fox News Channel, Weekend Live, January 28, 2007
Proposals for smoking bans in cars with kids are cropping up around the country. Guests: Patrick Reynolds, Executive Director, Tobaccofree Earth; Gary Nolan, The Smoker’s Club Spokesman. Host: CNBC’s Sue Herera.
Patrick Reynolds’ 5 city press tour of Ohio
October 26, 2006
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Cincinnati and Dayton
Toledo (clip above)
Cleveland and Columbus (wmv files to download)
Patrick Reynolds’ five city press tour of Ohio two weeks before the election was one of many ways a coalition led by the American Cancer Society educated the public about two competing ballot measures. Issue 5 would provide for Statewide 100% smokefree restaurants & bars, and Issue 4, an R.J. Reynolds-sponsored measure masquerading as a smoking ban, would have permitted smoking Statewide. Although outspent by two to one, the Cancer Society’s ballot measure passed in the election. Newspapers ran front section page stories, in addition to the TV coverage above. The political campaign’s manager sent this letter of support detailing her experience working with Mr. Reynolds’ on this campaign. Following this he flew to Missouri to campaign for Amendment 3, below.
Missouri Amendment 3 Cigarette Tax
October 17, 2006
WMV files to download: Kansas City, MO, Channel 9 KMBC (ABC),Channel 4 WDAF (FOX)
Tampa 10 (CBS)
May 10, 2006
Anti-smoking advocate denounces family ties
to the tobacco industry
Tampa Bay News 9
May 9, 2006
Patrick Reynolds talks at high schools in Tampa, FL
Anti-smoking grandson of RJ Reynoldstells kids, Don’t smoke!
“In the school auditorium at Middleton High Wednesday morning, Patrick Reynolds took the stage, microphone in hand, and began telling his story….”
Web text of CBS 10 report
Video clips from his live talk for youth
WMBC News
Seen across the Tri-State Area (NJ|NY|PA)
April 27, 2006
Anti-smoking advocate speaks at local school, says NJ needs to do more for kids
Reynolds, to teens during a talk at a high school in Somerset County, NJ: “By making itself the outlaw rebel of the tobacco industry, who do you think RJ Reynolds is positioning itself to appeal to?” He showed the audience RJR’s candy flavored cigarette ads, and RJR’s Kool packages with a DJ, hip-hop artist and youth party on recent packaging, asking, “How do you feel about this?”
… News anchor, concluding story: Reynolds says New Jersey is doing very little to shield kids from the dangers that lurk in their first puff. He’s calling for higher levels of funding for the State’s youth tobacco prevention programs — specifically to designate more than just 1% of the more than $1 billion the State collects each year in tobacco revenues. He applauds the Garden State for its $2.40 per pack cigarette tax and the recent Clean Indoor Air Act.
Fox News Channel
Neil Cavuto, Your World
March 27, 2006
Are tobacco tax hikes fair to smokers?
CBS Evening News
March 20, 2006
Luxury smoking lounge loophole
CONCLUSION: “While executives of the tobacco giant [RJR] say the timing of all this is coincidental to Chicago’s smoking ban, R.J. Reynolds’ anti-smoking grandson says he doubts that. ‘It really is an in-your-face effort to say, ‘Hey, here is a bar where we found a loophole where you can still smoke. It is a rebellion on the part of R.J. Reynolds,’ says Patrick Reynolds.”
Welcome to the Smoking Lounge (Text version at CBS website)
Repeated the next morning on affiliates
CNBC
On the Money with Dylan Ratigan
December 21, 2005
Patrick Reynolds, “Companies should not be able to fire smokers simply because they smoke at home.”
MSNBC TV
Tucker Carlson
November 7, 2005
Debate about the new, “safer” cigarette
Fox News Channel
Your World with Neil Cavuto
October 19, 2005
Should NW Airlines ask employees to quit smoking,to reduce the airline’s health insurance costs?
Fox News Channel
Your World with Neil Cavuto
December 13, 2002
CNN Talkback Live
February 21, 2002
Should the legal age to buy tobacco be raised to 21?
Fox News Channel
Hannity & Colmes
June 6, 2001
$3 Billion Award to Lung Cancer Victim
CBS The Early Show
July 18, 2000
Tobacco lawsuit awards $145 billion to FL smokers: Should these lawsuits be allowed?
Norwalk, Bellevue, Ashland, Mansfield, Ohio
February 12, 2008
WFMD TV
Speaking tour of Ohio middle and high schools sponsored by local hospitals.
Alexandria, Louisiana
Community and youth talks
Jan 9, 2008
ABC 31 News
KALB (NBC) News Channel 5, Live at Noon
Pensacola, Florida
April 27, 2007
Speaking Event
Greenbay, WI
October 1, 2001
WBAY – ABC Channel 2
Video clips from Patrick Reynolds live talks
See also the bestselling educational video of Patrick Reynolds’ live assembly program
For age 10 – 17 (US grades 7-12)