City of Eugene Human Rights Commission

City of Eugene Human Rights Commission The mission of the Human Rights Commission is to promote implementation of universal human rights values and principles in all City of Eugene programs and throughout the wider community. To carry out this mission the commission shall affirm, encourage and initiate programs and services within the City of Eugene and in the wider community designed to place priority upon protecting, respecting, and fulfilling the full range of universal human rights as enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To support and promote human rights, the commission will: provide human rights education, be proactive in human rights efforts, address human rights violations, ensure active public participation, be transparent and open, and be publicly accountable for human rights progress. Human Rights Commissioners: Andrew Thomson Chair, Chris Nunes Vice Chair, Richie Weinman, Ken Neubeck, Jennifer Frenzer, Edward Goehring, Philip Carrasco, Mary Clayton, Arun Toke, Debra Merskin, Greg Evans Human Rights and Neighborhood Involvement Staff: Michael Kinnison, Lindsey Foltz, Lorna Flormoe The Human Rights Commission typically meets on the third Tuesday of each month. Tuesday, January 20 , 2014 5:30 – 7:30 PM Meeting Atrium Building, Sloat Room, 99 W. 10th Avenue, Eugene Contact: Lindsey Foltz, 541-682-5619, lindsey.m.foltz@ci.eugene.or.us ITEM TIME ON TASK 1. Welcome from Chair, Agenda/Minutes Review VOTE 5 minutes (5:30 pm) 2. Public Comment 10 minutes (5:35 pm) 3. Support Request DISCUSS & VOTE 5 minutes (5:45 pm) Beyond Toxics – Endorsement Request 4. Intimidation 2 Code DISCUSS & VOTE 15 minutes (5:50 pm) Human Rights Staff 5. Downtown Smoking Ban Moved to Future Agenda (6 6. Staff Update 15 minutes (6:25 pm) 7. Liaison Update 15 minutes (6:40 pm) 99 W. 10th Avenue, Suite 116, Eugene, OR 97401 541.682.5177 |ehroffice@ci.eugene.or.us | www.eugene-or.gov/hrc 1  8. Work Group Lead Update 15 minutes (6:55 pm) 9. Open Discussion 15 minutes (7:10 pm) 10. Closing 5 minutes (7:25 pm) Upcoming events, activities or meetings the HRC needs to be aware of: Human Rights Commission Meeting – February 17, 2015 Boards and Commission Open Recruitment - http://www.eugene-or.gov/BCC The Eugene Human Rights Commission welcomes your interest in these agenda items. This meeting location is wheelchair accessible. For the hearing impaired, FM-assistive listening devices are available or an interpreter can be provided with 48 hours’ notice prior to the meeting. Spanish-language interpretation will also be provided with 48 hours’ notice. To arrange for these services, contact staff at (541) 682-5177. La Comisión de Derechos Humanos agradece su interés por participar en los asuntos de esta agenda. 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Si necesita cualquiera de estos servicios por favor solicítelos con 48 horas de anticipación, llamando al (541) 682-5177. 99 W. 10th Avenue, Suite 116, Eugene, OR 97401 541.682.5177 | ehrcenter@ci.eugene.or.us | www.eugene-or.gov/hrc 2  MINUTES Eugene Human Rights Commission Sloat Room – 99 West 10th Avenue Eugene, Oregon October 21, 2014 5:30 p.m. PRESENT: Andrew Thomson, Mary Clayton, Ken Neubeck, Philip Carrasco, Jennifer Frenzer Edward Goehring, Arun Toke, Debra Merskin, Richie Weinman Commissioners; Lindsey Foltz, Michael Kinnison staff, ABSENT: Councilor Greg Evans, Chris Nunes The mission of the Human Rights Commission is to promote implementation of human rights values and principles in al City of Eugene programs and throughout the wider community. To carry out this mission the commission shall affirm, encourage, and initiate programs and services within the City of Eugene and the wider community designed to place priority upon protecting, respecting, and fulfilling the full range of universal human rights as enumerated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To support and promote human rights, the commission will: provide human rights education, be proactive in human rights efforts, address human rights violations, ensure active public participation, be transparent and open, and be publicly accountable for human rights progress. 1. Welcome from Chair –Agenda Review Edward Goehring moves to approve agenda with change to add Council Liaison update time to the open discussion, Mary Clayton seconds, unanimous. 2. Minutes Review – AndrewTthomson moves to approve as is, Deb Merskin seconds, unanimous. 3. Public Comment – Lisa Arkin- Beyond Toxics Proposal for education on how to create equity in public health and planning policies, Ben Duncan (Multnomah County) willing to offer services for free and create a series of educational workshops asking for endorsement. Majeska Seese-Green – Intimidation 2 ordinance comment, broaden to issue of protected classes, wants to go beyond adding homelessness to protected classes and to instead use socio-economic status. Thinks it needs more discussion. Perhaps there 3  should be protections even for the 1%. Suggest this is necessary to bring people together. Also would like to extend possibilities for people to extend shelter to others on their own property. 4. Funding Request – New Generations Film Festival Richie Weinman moves that the request be approved, Phil Carrasco seconds, unanimous. Judging Panel volunteers: Ken Neubeck, Deb Merskin, Arun Toke 5. Intimidation 2 Move to direct staff to investigate to intimidation 2 amendments regarding sexual orientation, and socio-economic status including homelessness, and bring back a report to the commission in January. Edward Goehring moves, Deb merskin seconds, unanimous 6. Staff Update MUPTE timeline- December 8 next work session Rest Stops – County providing space for rest stops, nightingale health sanctuary operating Open House – TDOR will be Thursday November 20 3-6 pm, TDOR 6:30-8:30 Subcommittee for MLK Awards: Phil, Andrew, Deb, volunteer 7. Liaison Update Edward Goehring – Police Commission – emerging technology and privacy rights, police profiling and socio-economic status, Carter Hawley will be moving to Community Development Chris Wig – Civilian Review Board Bill Randall - staff regarding homelessness at the planning commission table Phil Carrasco – Integration Network had a planning session to focus work on public education, employment relation issues, undocumented worker rights, also expanding membership 8. Work Group Lead Update Mary – International Human Rights Day- Save the Dates going out tomorrow, programming is well underway. Food is ordered. Parking will be free up until 6:30. Asking for a volunteer to sit at the Human Rights Commission table during the event. Also asking for everyone to personally invite 5 people to the event. Ken – Homelessness Work Group monitor activities of the Lane County Poverty and Homelessness Board. Looking for grant to bring up issue of youth homelessness, 4  dovetails with the 15th night initiative. Work session polling in progress. Michael Carrigan from CALC would like to be involved with homeless bill of rights issue at local and state levels. Pearl Wolfe has asked Ken to make a presentation in their January meeting on criminalization of homelessness. At the next PHB meeting would like to endorse the top 5 recommendations – sharing the load with rest stops and car camping, additional rest stops, conversation with law enforcement to ease up on enforcement on Eagan nights, examining criminalization of homelessness. Ken Neubeck moves the Chair sign the letter and send over to the PHB for delivery tomorrow, Jennifer Frenzer seconds, unanimous. Jennifer Frenzer – work groups have broken off; Mayor and Commissioner Farr would like to put out a call to property owners to host a rest stop or car camping “Share the Load”, getting car camping kits together (how to host a site). You can work through St. VDP or on their own. Dan Bryant, Michael Carrigan are working on that. 9. Open Discussion Edward Goehring – process for meetings, suggest that chairs acknowledge hands and then keep a written queue to address in order. Richie Weinman – introductions and welcomes at the beginning, would like opportunity for comment after public comment to respond if wanted, would like to add that to the agenda. Ken Neubeck – Also likes introduction from audience members as well during the opening of the meeting. Agenda item to revise the Human Rights Ordinance Phil Carrasco – MLK event, make sure HRC has time Jennifer Frenzer – There was a rally tonight in support of Ferguson at the Unitarian Universalist Church. There are some interesting aspects of human rights with Ferguson issue, particularly the right to protest. Arun Toke – Announcements on the agenda. Tomorrow at ORI discussion on racism. Ken Neubeck – It is really important to have neutral observers for demonstrations and record information. Would like to see the HRC more involved with that and get more commissioners to do the training and be involved. Bill Randall – Sonja Nazzario speaking at LCC free in the forum building Edward Goehring – met with Chief Kerns regarding Fergusson and lessons learned from their police department, addressed the issue of tactical surprise and perception of the public and potentially elected officials. 5  Arun Toke - Would love to see training happen early next year. Perhaps some meeting time could be used for that. Mike Kinnison – Encourage sufficient training for high stakes situations. UO has a neutral observer training and Lt. Bills offered to participate in such a training. Edward Goehring – like the idea to have a police participant in the training, importance of neutrality of observers and bridging trust with police and observers Michael Kinnison – process addressing queue, make sure there is a way to address the stream of conversation Richie Weinman moves to adjourn, Edward Goehring seconds, unanimous. Adjourned 7:25 pm 6 Board of Directors THE PROPOSAL: Beyond Toxics is seeking the endorsement of the Eugene Human Rights Commission for a 3-month project to build capacity to incorporate equity and environmental justice principles and Executive Board practices in local government. The project will serve electeds, agencies and city staff, committee and David Monk, President commission members, and interested residents. The project goal is to strengthen community Gwyneth Iredale, Secretary engagement and reduce disparities in our community. The outcome should result in fewer Katalina Herrera, Treasurer environmentally-associated illnesses such as asthma and cancer in vulnerable low-income and minority Lokyee Au Carlos Barrera communities. Carla Hervert, RN, MS Cameron Hubbe, MS Thomas Kerns, Ph.D. Carter McKenzie PROJECT GOALS: Marcela Mendoza, Ph.D. 1. Create a common public understanding of health disparities and inequities in our community. Joanne Skirving 2. Implement health and equity education projects in Lane County that address the root causes of and Advisory Board solutions to unequal exposures to pollution and health disparities in low income and minority neighboods in Eugene. Robert Amundson, Ph.D. Richard Barnhart, M.D. 3. Build upon the successful Multnomah County’s Health Equity Initiative as a model to raise the Josefina Cano visibility of current prevention efforts that blend public health into urban planning strategies. Susie Cousar Nancy Crumpacker, M.D. 4. Encourage preliminary conversations with policy makers, volunteer civic participants and impacted Lynn Fessenden, Ph.D. Don Francis community members to explore how we can modify institutional policies and practices to provide David Funk greater protection of our most vulnerable communities. Jim Goes, Ph.D. Anita Johnson 5. Build engagement and empowerment in low income and minority communities to grow their role Ed Meza around issues of health equity and urban planning in distressed neighborhoods. David Monk Kari Norgaard, Ph.D. Mary O’Brien, Ph.D. Margarito Palacios ACTIVITY: Randall Phelps, M.D. • Winter-Spring, 2015: Hold two or three successive 2-hour workshops led by key staff from Doug Quirke, J.D. Mark Reed, Ph.D. Multnomah County Public Health Department and the Governor’s Environmental Justice Task Force Debbie Schlenoff, Ph.D. in recognizing and problem-solving health disparities. Mariahm Stephenson Jan Wilson, J.D. Staff BACKGROUND: Beyond Toxics has a four-year history of working to address environmental health inequities in our local community. We received two US EPA Environmental Justice grants that resulted Lisa Arkin Executive Director in two Community-Based Environmental Health Assessments and the West Eugene Environmental larkin@BeyondToxics.org Justice Bus Tour, which was endorsed and supported by the Eugene Human Rights Commission. Our research played a key role in securing a $600,000 US EPA Brownfields Assessment Grant for the Lane John Jordan-Cascade Communications Manager County Brownfields Coalition. Our advocacy for environmental justice also spurred the Coalition’s work jjcascade@BeyondToxics.org to develop a Community Equity Decision-Making Criteria Tool to ensure community justice when developing brownfields. THE RIGHT PEOPLE: Ben Duncan is the originator and program director of Multnomah County Health Department Health Equity Initiative. He is also the Governor-appointed chair of the Oregon Environmental Justice Task Force. Duncan has agreed to provide leadership for the workshops without charge. The Multnomah County Health Department has done extensive research, development and education as part of their Health Equity Initiative, a project that was started in 2008. The project motto is: “healthy people in healthy communities,” and the leaders of this Initiative state their goal is to … provide examples for our colleagues locally and nationally who are engaging around the work of Health Equity. P.O. Box 1106, Eugene, OR 97440 • Phone: 541-465-8860 • Office: 1192 Lawrence Street info@BeyondToxics.org • www.BeyondToxics.org 7  409 RESEARCH PAPER Marketing to the marginalised: tobacco industry targeting of the homeless and mentally ill D E Apollonio, R E Malone ............................................................................................................................... See end of article for Tobacco Control 2005;14:409–415. doi: 10.1136/tc.2005.011890 authors’ affiliations ....................... Correspondence to: Ruth E Malone, RN, PhD, FAAN, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, University of Objectives: To describe the tobacco industry’s relationships with and influence on homeless and mentally California, San Francisco, ill smokers and organisations providing services to them. 3333 California Street, Suite 455, UCSF Box Methods: Analysis of internal tobacco industry documents and journal articles. 0612, San Francisco, CA Results: The tobacco industry has marketed cigarettes to the homeless and seriously mentally ill, part of its 94143-0612; rmalone@ ‘‘downscale’’ market, and has developed relationships with homeless shelters and advocacy groups, itsa.ucsf.edu gaining positive media coverage and political support. Received 16 March 2005 Discussion: Tobacco control advocates and public health organisations should consider how to target Accepted 1 July 2005 programmes to homeless and seriously mentally ill individuals. Education of service providers about ....................... tobacco industry efforts to cultivate this market may help in reducing smoking in these populations. S tudies document the tobacco industry’s marketing of pride in their identity that might lead them to organise on cigarettes to marginalised groups. To increase sales and their own behalf. In addition, these groups are margin- defuse potential political opposition, tobacco firms have alised20–22 both socially and economically and their needs are directed marketing, philanthropy, and outreach campaigns to rarely a focus of tobacco control efforts.23 Organisations African Americans,1 Asian Americans,2 Latinos,3 and gay providing services may have different goals than homeless men,4 and made appeals to different segments of society individuals.16 For all these reasons, it is important to better based on factors such as age and sex.5 6 However, searches understand the nature and extent of tobacco industry revealed no previous research on tobacco industry marketing influence on tobacco use among the homeless and seriously to the homeless and seriously mentally ill, populations mentally ill. This paper examines internal tobacco industry marked by extremely high smoking rates and unique in their documents to analyse tobacco industry involvement with the simultaneous economic, psychological, social, and physiolo- homeless and seriously mentally ill population. gical vulnerability.7–11 Despite their low incomes, the homeless have character- DATA AND METHODS istics that make them desirable ‘‘downscale’’ customers, a In conjunction with legal settlements between 46 state population segment that the tobacco industry identified as attorneys general and the major tobacco companies in the critical to its sales at least as early as the 1970s.12 13 While USA, over 40 million pages of internal tobacco industry there is no consistent definition in the literature of what documents have been made publicly available. These docu- constitutes the population of mentally ill individuals, most ments are web accessible at the Legacy Tobacco Documents studies find that smoking rates are high in this population as Library24 and Tobacco Documents Online,25 as well as major well as among the homeless. Research identifies between a US tobacco companies. Documents used for this paper were quarter and a third of the homeless as mentally ill,14 15 and retrieved between December 2003 and December 2004. rates of mental illness and disability are even higher among Using previously established techniques for systematically the chronically homeless.16 searching tobacco documents archives,26 we began with Approximately two thirds of the severely mentally ill initial search terms such as ‘‘homeless’’, and ‘‘mental experience or risk homelessness,16 and the mentally ill are illness’’. Searches were expanded with a ‘‘snowball’’ strategy, estimated to buy nearly half the cigarettes sold in the USA.17 using contextual information from initial searches to identify Mental illness and chemical dependency, both of which additional search terms and relevant documents, including impair critical judgment, may make the homeless more names of individuals/organisations, date ranges, places, and susceptible to marketing efforts that suggest cigarettes help reference (Bates) numbers. Approximately 2500 internal people ‘‘cope with stress’’.17 Overall, less than one quarter of tobacco industry documents pertaining to the homeless, the US population smokes and smoking rates have declined mentally ill, homeless organisations, and psychiatric institu- since the 1960s.18 By comparison, although it is difficult to tions were identified and screened for relevance. After determine the level of smoking in the homeless population, eliminating irrelevant material and duplicates, we drew on studies suggest that between 70–99% of homeless adults approximately 400 documents to prepare this paper, dated smoke.7–10 Also, smoking rates for individuals with severe from 1977 to 2001. We also reviewed relevant secondary data mental illness, who are over-represented among the home- less population, have not been declining as have rates in the Abbreviations: LCHV, Louisiana Coalition for Homeless Veterans; general population.19 NCHV, National Coalition for Homeless Veterans; OSHA, Occupational Unlike some other disadvantaged groups, the homeless Safety and Health Administration; PM, Philip Morris; RJR, RJ Reynolds; and seriously mentally ill do not share a common culture or VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars 8 www.tobaccocontrol.com 410 Apollonio, Malone sources including newspaper and journal articles, accessed Although the public health community is widely aware via PubMed, Jstor, and internet searches using Google. Data that cigarette use kills one in two long time smokers,18 were managed using EndNote software, and analysed to homeless services workers may express only limited concern determine the tobacco industry’s practices and goals in about smoking.56 When service providers consider smoking, dealing with the homeless and seriously mentally ill, and they sometimes focus on the type of cigarettes smoked rather with organisations providing services to these populations. than on the hazards of smoking itself. A 1993 article in Cancer Nursing, for example, discussed the higher health risks faced by homeless smokers because they often smoke butts, or re- Tobacco industry marketing to the homeless roll used cigarettes, risking the spread of infectious diseases. In 1977, an international tobacco industry trade group, However, the proposed solution to this problem was itself including representatives of all major cigarette companies, problematic: suggesting that public health workers find ways noted in a document on the social acceptability of smoking for homeless smokers to acquire ‘‘clean’’ cigarettes while that ‘‘cigarette smoking is becoming a downscale social encouraging them to quit. Although the authors were aware activity’’.27 As the disease effects of smoking became better of this tension, they believed that promoting cessation alone understood, more affluent and educated people were the would be ineffective. They suggested that most likely to quit.28 29 Cigarette companies thus increasingly marketed toward lower income, less educated, and minority segments of the US population.1 12 A marketing study done ‘‘…telling a homeless person to quit smoking may not be for RJ Reynolds (RJR) noted in a downscale market profile as effective an intervention as providing a way to more that this demographic was ‘‘more impressionable to market- easily obtain fresh, unadulterated, ‘‘clean’’ cigarettes ing/advertising… they’re more susceptible. They’re less while simultaneously offering smoking cessation classes… formed intellectually… more malleable’’ [Ellipses in origi- one must consider that smoking is a major coping nal].12 mechanism used by the homeless to deal with the stress By the early 1990s the homeless had become one of the of their day-to-day existence.’’57 subpopulations specifically targeted by major cigarette companies, in addition to general marketing efforts directed Homeless people do face multiple stressors, but smoking toward downscale consumers.30 For example, RJR included and the associated tobacco addiction have themselves been direct targeting to the homeless as part of an urban shown to increase anxiety58 59 and to exacerbate existing marketing plan in the 1990s, focused on the advertising of mental health problems.23 In addition, research suggests that ‘‘value’’ brands to ‘‘street people’’.30 In 1990, American the majority of homeless and seriously mentally ill smokers Tobacco supplied cigarettes for the movie ‘‘Robocop 3’’, are interested in quitting,7 60 61 and some homeless indivi- which showed homeless activists smoking Pall Malls and duals prefer non-smoking facilities.62 Moreover, recent Lucky Strikes.31 In addition to advertising, tobacco companies evidence shows that smoking cessation interventions in gave away cigarette brand logo products to the homeless—for these populations can be successful.23 60 63–71 example, in 1994 Philip Morris (PM) apparently distributed Many organisations providing services to the homeless and 7000 ‘‘Merit’’ cigarette brand labelled blankets to New York seriously mentally ill appear to have been relatively sanguine homeless shelters and homeless individuals.32 By the late about their relationship to the tobacco industry. Several 1990s, the ties between homelessness and smoking had organisations, including teen shelters,72 received or requested grown so overt that a major marketing periodical charac- grants from the tobacco industry, particularly PM.48 73–76 In terised the target market of Brown and Williamson’s GPC part, this may reflect the fact that tobacco companies have brand as ‘‘Homeless Man’’.33 specifically targeted workers at homeless shelters in market- Offering free samples is a well established strategy by ing efforts. A marketing study commissioned by PM in 1995, which tobacco companies recruit new smokers,34–36 and for example, stated that volunteers in homeless shelters were cigarette samples were distributed to homeless shelters, the kind of urban consumer it was trying to reach with a new mental hospitals, and homeless service organisations. In menthol cigarette.77 1988 alone, Lorillard Tobacco Company spent over $570 000 In some cases, organisations that provide services to the on cigarette donations,37 though not all of these were homeless and seriously mentally ill have purchased cigarettes distributed to marginalised populations. Internal company for clients.78 79 Other organisations have sought cigarette documents show that in a single month in 1990, however, donations.80 81 Although Lorillard was the only company for Lorillard distributed over 100 sample packs apiece to a which we could locate detailed records of cigarette donations, homeless shelter, a soup kitchen, and a mental health we found documents dated as late as 1999 showing that a association.38 Similar donations were logged regularly from range of organisations solicited cigarettes or coupons. These 1983 to at least 1993.39–46 included psychiatric institutions, homeless shelters, nursing homes, drug treatment facilities, thrift stores, and convales- cent care centres.53 76 78 80–97 130 For example, the executive Cultivation of organisations serving the homeless and director of a shelter serving women and children wrote to mentally ill RJR in 1992: At the same time that tobacco companies targeted con- sumers, they cultivated relationships with service organisa- tions, apparently as a means to gain positive media coverage ‘‘… I am specifically asking if you might consider giving us and fight smoking restrictions. Homeless service organisa- cigarettes, factory rejects or irregulars would be fine for tions received charitable contributions from tobacco compa- our clients. When clients come to our door they are usually nies over several years,47–49 at times as part of larger brand depleted of all funds and resources. We do not believe this promotions.50–52 A single contribution sometimes served both is the most appropriate time to give up smoking, it simply to develop sales for the product and to develop a relationship add [sic] to their stress.’’96 with the recipient organisation, such as when cigarettes were donated to homeless shelters at Christmas.53 Some psychia- Similarly, a residential treatment services organisation tric hospitals were also targeted by the ‘‘value’’ brands of requested cigarettes from Lorillard for a client population major cigarette companies for sales promotions and give- made up largely of homeless substance abusers and the aways throughout the 1980s and 1990s.54 55 seriously mentally ill, and received two cases, containing 800 9 www.tobaccocontrol.com Industry targeting of marginalised groups 411 sample cigarettes, in response.92 The attitude of many service proceeds from the concert would benefit local or national providers seeking tobacco industry assistance is illustrated by homeless organisations.107 PM’s effort to gain direct political a 1995 letter from a mental hospital representative seeking support from the Coalition for the Homeless was ultimately donations of cigarettes, in which she characterised the unsuccessful, but the company did succeed in gaining provision of cigarettes as ‘‘caring’’ for patients: considerable positive media coverage of its contribu- tions.106 107 ‘‘If you could, by some miracle, donate cigarettes or tobacco to the hospital to the patients [sic] it would be very Homeless veterans groups much appreciated. As you know, it is very hard to stop Cigarettes were included as part of military rations to soldiers smoking and for some here it is all they have. A majority of from the first world war until 1972,108 resulting in tobacco the patients here do not have family who are involved or addiction among thousands of soldiers. Once returned from care enough about them to bring cigarettes to them.’’78 active duty, veterans constituted a substantial market for tobacco companies, which have maintained close relation- In addition, local homeless organisations have accepted the ships with veterans’ groups for decades. For example, the presence of tobacco industry employees as volunteers on industry has sought out veterans’ organisations to rally in work projects—for example, in 1998, PM arranged for support of industry policy positions, in recent years specifi- employees to paint two women’s dormitories as a work cally to fight clean indoor air laws.109 project at a homeless shelter.50 Such activities position the Veterans themselves often experience long term health tobacco industry as sympathetic and benevolent, drawing consequences after their service, suffering high rates of attention away from its primary aims of promoting smoking homelessness and mental illness compared to the population and selling cigarettes. as a whole.110 Veterans’ organisations estimate that over Two specific cases offer further detail regarding this 250 000 veterans are homeless, constituting a third of the relationship between service providers and the tobacco homeless population.111 The tobacco industry has made industry. financial contributions to several organisations that provide services to homeless veterans or claim to advocate on their behalf, and then used these relationships to advance its Benson & Hedges music festivals political agenda. Tobacco industry documents suggest that of Beginning in 1988, PM made charitable contributions to these organisations, the National Coalition for Homeless homeless services organisations using a portion of ticket Veterans (NCHV) has been most active in advocating for revenues from Benson & Hedges arts and music festivals.98 99 tobacco industry political goals. In addition, PM made a two year grant of $100 000 to the The NCHV, a group based in Washington DC made up of National Coalition for the Homeless.99–101 Shortly after community based homeless veteran service providers, claims making these contributions, in 1992, PM requested that 250 members112 and has appeared repeatedly on behalf of the another recipient, the Coalition for the Homeless in New industry’s efforts to prevent new smoking restrictions. The York, ask local legislators to stop trying to pass clean indoor organisation testified during US Occupational Safety and air laws and instead focus on problems of homelessness. The Health Administration (OSHA) hearings on the regulation of Coalition for the Homeless refused and claimed that they tobacco in the workplace,113 was recruited again to advocate would not accept future tobacco industry funding.102 After against smoke-free bars in New York, and worked to hearing about the incident, New York Times columnist Anna maintain unrestricted smoking in other states after the Quindlen wrote an opinion piece supporting the Coalition for passage of smoke-free bars legislation in California.114 115 the Homeless and suggesting that other charitable organisa- NCHV’s executive director argued in 1994 before OSHA that, tions follow their lead.102 This was the sole incident uncovered in our research where the tobacco industry received negative publicity for its relationship with homeless ‘‘[Prohibiting] on the job smoking… would force homeless organisations. veterans – and others like them – back on the streets. We The Benson & Hedges music festivals, which featured jazz, simply cannot place a recovering, unemployed veteran in R&B, and blues, continued to seek out local homeless service such a restrictive environment and expect success.’’116 organisations as recipients of charitable contributions in cities where music festivals were held at least through RJR recruited the NCHV (and other veterans groups such 1999.103 104 Although we found no discussions of negative as the American Legion, AMVETS and local Veterans of publicity from the Coalition for the Homeless incident in Foreign Wars (VFW) groups) in 1994 and 1995 to appear in PM’s internal memos, all organisations chosen to receive lieu of cigarette companies themselves in the industry’s contributions were pre-screened by public relations firms, advocacy against clean indoor air laws.117 NCHV was also and proposed to the company for funding if they met two listed in an internal company document as a ‘‘very active’’ criteria.104 105 First, the organisations stated that they had no ally on behalf of PM’s policy goals in 1997.114 Other problem accepting tobacco industry money. Second, shelters organisations such as Colorado’s Veterans for the Homeless, agreed to hold a press conference with industry representa- though apparently less politically active, received rent and tives to advertise the contribution. While the majority of food contributions from Kraft,118 another subsidiary of PM’s shelters proposed as recipients of contributions served adult parent company, now called Altria.119 PM, however, made men, PM also considered family shelters.105 press releases regarding the same contributions under its The Benson & Hedges promotions served two purposes: own name.120 they were a means to reach a target market for the brand,5 Despite making relatively small financial contributions, and they were a way for PM to position itself as a ‘‘socially tobacco companies appear to have been successful in responsible’’ company through philanthropy.6 98 In at least recruiting homeless veterans groups as allies and in attracting one case, PM held a Benson & Hedges blues concert in a associated positive media coverage. For example, a 2000 homeless shelter, and most concert attendees were reportedly media event created by RJR benefited the Louisiana Coalition homeless.106 Contemporaneous media coverage of the Benson for Homeless Veterans (LCHV). In exchange for Doral & Hedges blues concerts, as well as the PM country music cigarette pack seals collected at its ‘‘Red, White and Blue and jazz festivals sponsored by other brands, noted that Salute’’ at a local bar, RJR contributed $1000 to help build a 10 www.tobaccocontrol.com 412 Apollonio, Malone drop-in centre for disadvantaged and homeless veterans.121 At another location in North Carolina, the company donated What this paper adds $1000 to Disabled American Veterans.121 According to a company public relations document, the events gained RJR This paper documents tobacco industry efforts to recruit extensive positive media coverage. In several cases, the RJR smokers in populations—the homeless and mentally ill—that press release lauding its contribution was printed verbatim in have not been previously studied, and to form alliances with local newspapers.121 RJR internal documents, however, organisations that provide services to these populations. revealed that the event was arranged to sell cigarettes to Given continued high smoking rates among the homeless veterans, an important market because 42% of Doral and mentally ill and the associated health risks, it suggests customers have ties to the military.121 According to the firm interventions to recruit service providers in efforts to reduce hired by RJR, the Quixote Group, each event generated smoking prevalence in these populations. approximately 20 media stories, all positive, reaching over a million readers and listeners, and increased cigarette sales at event locations.121 service organisations to request goods and services from the tobacco industry and to accommodate its media and policy DISCUSSION demands75 129 without necessarily recognising that they may Our study has limitations. Because the company documents be further compromising their clients’ health and helping available to us for review are limited to those requested sustain tobacco addiction. during legal discovery processes, and because of the sheer Second, because homeless shelter employees who smoke volume and limited indexing of the document collections, we may not view client smoking as a problem,78 85 tobacco have no way to determine whether we have reviewed all control advocates need to consider ways to educate and documents relevant to tobacco industry interest in the partner with service providers. For example, Hamilton Family homeless and seriously mentally ill populations. This limita- Center, an emergency family shelter in San Francisco, is tion means that we are unable to determine, for example, working with Tobacco Free Kids to develop an education how trends in industry interest in the homeless and seriously programme about the dangers of secondhand smoke (Schick mentally ill populations may have changed over time. The S, January 2005, personal communication). Education evidence also does not allow us to determine industry should also focus on the costs to homeless clients when motivation for some activities, such as the donation of organisations accept tobacco industry support and thereby ‘‘value’’ brands to shelters, which could have been done to enhance marketing opportunities. enhance marketing to this downscale segment of the market, Organisations that fund tobacco control programmes but could also represent cost or excess inventory considera- should consider making these populations a primary focus, tions, concerns about preserving the ‘‘upscale’’ reputation of encouraging service providers to develop cessation pro- ‘‘premium’’ brands, or other factors. grammes and policies against tobacco distribution and However, despite these limitations, this research reveals tobacco industry funding. Programmes attempting to help several ways that the tobacco industry has marketed these populations should also strive to find ways for service cigarettes to the homeless and seriously mentally ill, and providers to benefit by choosing not to accept tobacco shows how it has used service providers to try to further its industry support. political goals. No previous studies we could locate have The ethical implications of marketing an addictive and documented this phenomenon, which is congruent with the deadly product to a population characterised by high rates of industry’s targeting of other marginalised groups. These mental illness, substance abuse, and economic disadvantage findings have several important implications for public are even more troubling than those that are normally raised health. about cigarette marketing. The tobacco industry claims that it First, tobacco control advocates need to challenge the does not market to children because they are not capable of apparently common assumptions among service providers that tobacco is a resource and that their clients are too making adult judgments about smoking,123 131 yet it markets ‘‘stressed’’ to consider quitting smoking.96 116 Some service to adults with mental illness whose judgment may be providers presume that cigarettes calm the homeless and impaired. Targeting an addictive product to the economically seriously mentally ill,122 123 making the provision of services disadvantaged means that individuals may buy cigarettes at less difficult. In some cases, service providers have argued the expense of food and shelter.132 133 that smoking bans in environments populated by the The industry’s efforts to develop connections with other mentally ill (including many homeless shelters) threaten marginalised groups have drawn criticism from public health clients’ mental and physical health.124 Similarly, family advocates within the relevant communities.1–4 In some cases, groups that speak on behalf of severely mentally ill patients marketing plans have been forestalled by vigorous advocacy, have also advocated against smoke-free environments.79 such as the aborted ‘‘Uptown’’ brand that RJR attempted to Thus, despite the high incidence of tobacco related diseases introduce for African Americans, which became a public among the homeless and seriously mentally ill,8 9 125–128 relations disaster for the company.134 135 Targeting of home- organisations created to serve these individuals’ needs may less people, however, has drawn very little defensive be furthering their addiction through misplaced compassion. response. In general, homeless service organisations have viewed the This research suggests the complexity of intervening in proximate problems of lack of employment, income, counsel- smoking behaviour in marginalised populations suffering ling, and long term housing as more relevant to their clients from multiple forms of disadvantage. Tobacco control than harms caused by smoking.84 116 Service organisations advocates, public health workers, and funding organisations rarely consider smoking related disease effects in the home- should consider whether and how their efforts affect home- less and seriously mentally ill population.10 Casual attitudes less and seriously mentally ill individuals and those who about smoking by service providers can lead non-smokers to provide services for them. 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Everyone deserves the right to be tobacco free and live in a tobacco free environment. 2. Tobacco use disproportionately affects the poor, the educationally disadvantaged, and people with mental health problems and substance use disorder. It is particularly high in people experiencing homelessness1-5. Tobacco use is a social justice issue. 3. Providing tobacco free public areas is an essential component of helping people who use tobacco, to successfully quit6. Nearly 9 of every 10 households in Lane County are tobacco free. Should we not provide the same opportunity for people living in public space7? 4. People who use tobacco have higher rates of stress and anxiety, higher rates of depression and suicide and experience decreased pleasure in life compared to people who have never smoked, and compared to people who used to smoke8-10. 5. Exposure to second hand smoke is directly and proportionately related to increased risk of psychological distress and risk of future psychiatric illness in healthy adults11-12. 6. Tobacco use creates the illusion of relieving stress, because of its association with relief of the repetitive bouts of nicotine withdrawal experienced by people who use tobacco throughout each day13. 7. Tobacco addiction can impose a significant financial burden. It is often a major factor in food insecurity14. 8. Tobacco use is an undesired and regretted addiction for most people who use tobacco. Surveys indicate this is true for people experiencing homelessness, many of whom would like to quit15-16. 9. Neurochemical mechanisms have been discovered that explain the association between tobacco use and increased susceptibility of addiction to other substances, and the greater difficulty tobacco users have in achieving abstinence from other substances of abuse. Quitting tobacco increases abstinence17-19. 10. 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