Mario Obledo
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Mario Obledo was at one time the executive director of LULAC (the League o United Latin American Citizens which was used by the tobacco industry extensively.
Obledo also conducted seminars on workplace smoking for the Tobacco Institute.
Documents & Timeline
1988 June The 'Public Smoking Issues' division of the TI, consisting of Jeffrey Ross, John Lyons, and Sharon Ransome report lists:
- recruiting indoor air quality (ETS/ventilation) scientists.
- Alan Kassman, a former Philip Morris scientist, has been briefed and will go through media training next month.
- Jolanda Janczewski of ENV Services has been through media training and will be briefed by scientists and legal counsel next month.
- They have identified six additional ETS scientist who are now reviewing the scientific literature.
- testing the effectiveness of ACVA/HBI's advertising campaign and direct mail program. They are investigating the feasibility of broadcast ads.
- Litigation Program
- Lawyer John Fox is conducting legal seminars on workplace smoking - supposedly co-sponsored by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro with the Institute of Applied Management and Law
- Fox's associate Dennis Duffy will also conduct legal seminars
- Mario Obledo the ex-Executive Director of League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) will also conduct seminars
- Baltazar Bacca executive director of the Hispanic National Bar Association will also conduct seminars.
- Bestype Office Environments are promoting a workplace smoking program among architects
- Washington Legal Foundation will release their smoking policy research to the media to counter the BNA (?) claims.
- National Institute for Conflict Education (they were creating this) [2]
