Stanton Arnold Glantz was born on 1946 and is an American professor, author, and tobacco control activist.
24 Facts About Stanton Glantz
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Stanton Glantz's research focused on the health effects of tobacco smoking.
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Stanton Glantz is the author of four books, including The Cigarette Papers and Primer of Biostatistics.
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Stanton Glantz is a member of the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute and Institute for Health Policy Studies, and co-leader of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center Tobacco Program.
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Stanton Glantz was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2005.
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Stanton Glantz was the first of two children born in Cleveland, Ohio to Louis Stanton Glantz, an insurance salesman, and Frieda, a real estate broker.
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Stanton Glantz was a member of the Boy Scouts of America, where he achieved the top rank of Eagle Scout, and earned a Bronze Palm for further achievements.
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In 1973, Stanton Glantz carried out postdoctoral research on the mathematical modeling of heart tissue at Stanford, and then at the UCSF, where he has worked since 1977.
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Stanton Glantz served for 10 years as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and is a member of the California State Scientific Review Panel on Toxic Air Contaminants of the California Air Resources Board.
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Stanton Glantz is married to Marsha, a home-care nurse; and is the father of journalist Aaron Glantz and daughter Frieda Glantz.
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Stanton Glantz conducts research on a wide range of issues including the effects of secondhand smoke on the heart by studying reductions in heart attacks observed when smoke-free policies are enacted, and how the tobacco industry fights tobacco control programs.
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Stanton Glantz is author or coauthor of numerous publications related to secondhand smoke and tobacco control, as well as many papers on cardiovascular function and biostatistics.
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Stanton Glantz published the first study linking e-cigarettes to heart attacks in people.
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Stanton Glantz has written several books, including the widely used Primer of Biostatistics, and Primer of Applied Regression and Analysis of Variance.
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In February 2013, a paper co-authored by Stanton Glantz was published in the journal Tobacco Control.
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Stanton Glantz responded that all these potential criticisms were addressed in the paper or its technical appendix.
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Stanton Glantz has been a leading researcher and activist in the nonsmokers' rights movement since 1978, when he helped lead an unsuccessful state initiative campaign to enact a nonsmokers' rights law by popular vote.
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Stanton Glantz is one of the founders of Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.
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Stanton Glantz helped write and produce the films Secondhand Smoke, which concerns the health effects of involuntary smoking, and 120,000 Lives, which presents evidence that smoking in the movies recruits adolescent smokers and proposes solutions for reducing this effect.
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Stanton Glantz wrote Tobacco: Biology and Politics for high school students and The Uninvited Guest, a story about secondhand smoke, for second graders.
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Stanton Glantz was an opponent of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement, the "global settlement" of tobacco litigation proposed in 1996, in which the tobacco industry was to be granted de facto immunity from further litigation in exchange for payments to the states and acceptance of regulation by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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Stanton Glantz is running a website, SmokeFreeMedia, which is working to end depictions of tobacco use in movies.
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Dr Neeley alleged that when she complained about the harassment to the University, Dr Stanton Glantz retaliated by removing her name from a research paper she had co-authored.
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In September 2018, the Regents of the University of California and Dr Stanton Glantz executed a settlement agreement resolving Dr Neeley's lawsuit against the Regents and Dr Stanton Glantz personally.