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 =About=
-'''Stanton Arnold Glantz''' (born 1946) was an American professor, author, and leading tobacco control activist. Glantz was Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, the [[wikipedia:American Legacy Foundation]] Distinguished Professor of Tobacco Control, and director of the [[wikipedia:Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education]] at the [[wikipedia:University of California, San Francisco]] (UCSF) School of Medicine.<ref>{{  |title=Faculty Profiles|url=http://cardiology.ucsf.edu/facstaff/faculty_profiles.html|publisher=UCSF|accessdate=18 March 2014}}</ref> Glantz's research focuses on the [[wikipedia:health effects of tobacco smoking]].
+'''Stanton Arnold Glantz''' (born 1946) was an American professor, author, and leading tobacco control activist. Glantz was Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology, the [[wikipedia:American Legacy Foundation]] Distinguished Professor of Tobacco Control, and director of the [[wikipedia:Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education]] at the [[wikipedia:University of California, San Francisco]] (UCSF) School of Medicine.<ref>{{title=Faculty Profiles|url=http://cardiology.ucsf.edu/facstaff/faculty_profiles.html|publisher=UCSF|accessdate=18 March 2014}}</ref> Glantz's research focuses on the [[wikipedia:health effects of tobacco smoking]].
 Described as the "[[wikipedia:Ralph Nader]] of the anti-tobacco movement,"<ref name="tilting" /><ref>{{  |url=https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/16/stanton-glantz-ucsf-sexual-harrassment/|title=UCSF settles sexual harassment suit involving star researcher|date=2018-10-16|website=STAT|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-07}}</ref> Glantz is an [[wikipedia:activist]] for nonsmokers' rights and an advocate of [[wikipedia:public health]] policies to reduce smoking. He is the author of four books, including ''[[wikipedia:The Cigarette Papers]]''<ref name="cigpapers">S. Glantz, et al., [http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8489p25j/ "''The Cigarette Papers''", University of California Press, 1996]</ref> and ''Primer of Biostatistics''.<ref>S. Glantz, [https://books.google.com/books?id=GLRw3hylLOgC&dq=Stanton+A+Glantz ''Primer of Biostatistics''] (6 ed), McGraw-Hill, 2005</ref> Glantz is also a member of the UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute and Institute for Health Policy Studies,<ref>{{  |url=http://healthpolicy.ucsf.edu/article/faculty|title=Faculty|work=ucsf.edu|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221225251/http://healthpolicy.ucsf.edu/article/faculty|archivedate=2014-02-21}}</ref> and co-leader of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center Tobacco Program. He was elected to the [[wikipedia:Institute of Medicine]] in 2005.
-In 2017, Glantz was sued by a former [[wikipedia:postdoctoral researcher]] for alleged [[wikipedia:sexual harassment]] and retaliation. While UCSF internally found that Glantz had "more likely than not" engaged in harassment and had violated the faculty code of conduct,<ref name="sf-chron"/> Glantz and UCSF publicly denied the allegations and settled the lawsuit for $150,000.<ref name="stat">{{cite news | publisher = STAT | title = UCSF settles sexual harassment suit involving star researcher | url = https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/16/stanton-glantz-ucsf-sexual-harrassment/ | first1 = Ivan | last1= Oransky | first2=Adam |last2 = Marcus | date = October 16, 2018}}</ref> In 2018, a second former employee sued Glantz for harassment; Glantz and UCSF denied these allegations as well.<ref name="sf-examiner">{{cite news | work = San Francisco Examiner | title = UCSF professor faces second sexual harassment lawsuit | first = Laura | last = Waxmann | url = https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ucsf-professor-faces-second-sexual-harassment-lawsuit/ | date = March 28, 2018}}</ref>
+In 2017, Glantz was sued by a former [[wikipedia:postdoctoral researcher]] for alleged [[wikipedia:sexual harassment]] and retaliation. While UCSF internally found that Glantz had "more likely than not" engaged in harassment and had violated the faculty code of conduct,<ref name="sf-chron"/> Glantz and UCSF publicly denied the allegations and settled the lawsuit for $150,000.<ref name="stat">{{ news | publisher = STAT | title = UCSF settles sexual harassment suit involving star researcher | url = https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/16/stanton-glantz-ucsf-sexual-harrassment/ | first1 = Ivan | last1= Oransky | first2=Adam |last2 = Marcus | date = October 16, 2018}}</ref> In 2018, a second former employee sued Glantz for harassment; Glantz and UCSF denied these allegations as well.<ref name="sf-examiner">{{ news | work = San Francisco Examiner | title = UCSF professor faces second sexual harassment lawsuit | first = Laura | last = Waxmann | url = https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ucsf-professor-faces-second-sexual-harassment-lawsuit/ | date = March 28, 2018}}</ref>
 == Life and career ==
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 ==Research==
-Glantz conducted research on a wide range of issues including the effects of [[wikipedia:secondhand smoke]] on the heart by studying reductions in heart attacks observed when [[wikipedia:smoking ban|smoke-free policies]] are enacted, and how the tobacco industry fights [[wikipedia:tobacco control]] programs. His research on the effects of secondhand smoke on blood and blood vessels concludes that, in terms of heart disease, the effects of secondhand smoke are nearly as large as those of smoking.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Barnoya|first1=J|last2=Glantz|first2=SA|title=Cardiovascular effects of secondhand smoke: nearly as large as smoking.|journal=Circulation|date=24 May 2005|volume=111|issue=20|pages=2684–98|doi=10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.104.492215|pmid=15911719|doi-access=free}}</ref> One such study demonstrated a large and rapid reduction in the number of people admitted to the hospital with heart attacks in [[wikipedia:Helena, Montana]],<ref>{{   | title=The Helena Study ''(Abstract)'' | url=http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/bmj.38055.715683.55v1 | accessdate=2007-05-01}}</ref> after that community made all workplaces and public places smokefree.
+Glantz conducted research on a wide range of issues including the effects of [[wikipedia:secondhand smoke]] on the heart by studying reductions in heart attacks observed when [[wikipedia:smoking ban|smoke-free policies]] are enacted, and how the tobacco industry fights [[wikipedia:tobacco control]] programs. His research on the effects of secondhand smoke on blood and blood vessels concludes that, in terms of heart disease, the effects of secondhand smoke are nearly as large as those of smoking.<ref>{{ journal|last1=Barnoya|first1=J|last2=Glantz|first2=SA|title=Cardiovascular effects of secondhand smoke: nearly as large as smoking.|journal=Circulation|date=24 May 2005|volume=111|issue=20|pages=2684–98|doi=10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.104.492215|pmid=15911719|doi-access=free}}</ref> One such study demonstrated a large and rapid reduction in the number of people admitted to the hospital with heart attacks in [[wikipedia:Helena, Montana]],<ref>{{   | title=The Helena Study ''(Abstract)'' | url=http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/abstract/bmj.38055.715683.55v1 | accessdate=2007-05-01}}</ref> after that community made all workplaces and public places smokefree.
-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. He published the first study linking e-cigarettes to heart attacks in people.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Alzahrani | first1 = T | last2 = Pena | first2 = I | last3 = Temesgen | first3 = N | last4 = Glantz | first4 = SA | date = Oct 2018 | title = Association Between Electronic Cigarette Use and Myocardial Infarction | journal = American Journal of Preventive Medicine | volume = 55 | issue = 4| pages = 455–461 | pmid = 30166079 | doi = 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.05.004 | pmc = 6208321 }}</ref> He has written several books, including the widely used ''Primer of Biostatistics'' (which has been translated into Japanese, French, Russian, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish), and ''Primer of Applied Regression and Analysis of Variance''. In total, he is the author of 4 books and over 400 scientific papers, including the first major review (published in ''[[wikipedia:Circulation (journal)|Circulation]]'') which identified secondhand smoke as a cause of heart disease and the landmark 1995 ''[[wikipedia:Journal of the American Medical Association]]'' summary of the [[wikipedia:Brown & Williamson]] documents, which showed that the tobacco industry knew nicotine was addictive and that smoking caused cancer 30 years ago.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Glantz | first1 = SA | last2 = Barnes | first2 = DE | last3 = Bero | first3 = L | last4 = Hanauer | first4 = P | last5 = Slade | first5 = J | year = 1995 | title = Looking through a keyhole at the tobacco industry. The Brown and Williamson documents | url = | journal = JAMA | volume = 274 | issue = 3| pages = 219–24 | pmid = 7609230 | doi = 10.1001/jama.1995.03530030039032 }}</ref> This publication was followed up with his book, ''The Cigarette Papers'',<ref name = "cigpapers"/> which has played a key role in the ongoing litigation surrounding the tobacco industry. His book ''Tobacco Wars: Inside the California Battles''<ref>S. Glantz and E. Balbach. [http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft167nb0vq/ "Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles"], University of California Press, 2000</ref> chronicles the last quarter century of activism against the tobacco industry in California.
+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. He published the first study linking e-cigarettes to heart attacks in people.<ref>{{ journal | last1 = Alzahrani | first1 = T | last2 = Pena | first2 = I | last3 = Temesgen | first3 = N | last4 = Glantz | first4 = SA | date = Oct 2018 | title = Association Between Electronic Cigarette Use and Myocardial Infarction | journal = American Journal of Preventive Medicine | volume = 55 | issue = 4| pages = 455–461 | pmid = 30166079 | doi = 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.05.004 | pmc = 6208321 }}</ref> He has written several books, including the widely used ''Primer of Biostatistics'' (which has been translated into Japanese, French, Russian, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish), and ''Primer of Applied Regression and Analysis of Variance''. In total, he is the author of 4 books and over 400 scientific papers, including the first major review (published in ''[[wikipedia:Circulation (journal)|Circulation]]'') which identified secondhand smoke as a cause of heart disease and the landmark 1995 ''[[wikipedia:Journal of the American Medical Association]]'' summary of the [[wikipedia:Brown & Williamson]] documents, which showed that the tobacco industry knew nicotine was addictive and that smoking caused cancer 30 years ago.<ref>{{ journal | last1 = Glantz | first1 = SA | last2 = Barnes | first2 = DE | last3 = Bero | first3 = L | last4 = Hanauer | first4 = P | last5 = Slade | first5 = J | year = 1995 | title = Looking through a keyhole at the tobacco industry. The Brown and Williamson documents | url = | journal = JAMA | volume = 274 | issue = 3| pages = 219–24 | pmid = 7609230 | doi = 10.1001/jama.1995.03530030039032 }}</ref> This publication was followed up with his book, ''The Cigarette Papers'',<ref name = "cigpapers"/> which has played a key role in the ongoing litigation surrounding the tobacco industry. His book ''Tobacco Wars: Inside the California Battles''<ref>S. Glantz and E. Balbach. [http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft167nb0vq/ "Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles"], University of California Press, 2000</ref> chronicles the last quarter century of activism against the tobacco industry in California.
 Working with the UCSF Library, Glantz helped in making over 90 million pages of previously secret tobacco industry documents available via the internet on the UCSF [[wikipedia:Truth Tobacco Industry Documents]], formerly known as the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library.<ref>PBS Frontline, [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/glantz.html Interview with Stanton Glantz] for [https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/ ''Smoke in the Eye''], 1999.</ref> In February 2013, a paper co-authored by Glantz was published in the journal ''[[wikipedia:Tobacco Control (journal)|Tobacco Control]]''. Entitled "‘To quarterback behind the scenes, third-party efforts’: the tobacco industry and the Tea Party", the paper detailed how the [[wikipedia:Tea Party Movement|Tea Party political movement]] was funded and organized by organizations which were created by tobacco companies.<ref>{{  |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/study-confirms-tea-party-_b_2663125.html|title=Study Confirms Tea Party Was Created by Big Tobacco and Billionaire Koch Brothers|work=The Huffington Post}}</ref>
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 In 1982 he was part of a group of health activists who resurrected the last remaining copy of the film ''[[wikipedia:Death in the West]]'', previously suppressed by [[wikipedia:Altria Group|Philip Morris]],<ref>{{   |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1996/03/shoot-out-marlboro-country-contd |title=Shoot-Out in Marlboro Country (cont'd) |last1=Hochschild |first1=Adam |date=March 1996 |work=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |publisher= |accessdate=June 2, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{   |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19820511&id=3_A9AAAAIBAJ&pg=4909,1826559 |title='Death in the West' to be resurrected |page=6 |date=May 11, 1982 |work=[[The Herald (Glasgow)]] |publisher= |accessdate=June 2, 2014}}</ref> and developed an accompanying mini-course for fifth to tenth graders that has been used by over one million students.<ref name="tilting">{{   | url=https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=43514 | title=Tilting at Tobacco | publisher=Stanford University | accessdate=16 December 2014 | author=Robinson, Mark}}</ref><ref name="uofc" /><ref>{{   | url=http://tobaccodocuments.org/pm/2024977939-7940.html | title=ree Curriculum Guide and Broadcast of 'death in the West' 000129 and 000131 | publisher=Tobacco Documents Online | accessdate=16 December 2014 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141216135029/http://tobaccodocuments.org/pm/2024977939-7940.html | archivedate=2014-12-16 }}</ref> He 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.<ref name="uofc" /> He also wrote ''Tobacco: Biology and Politics''<ref>S. Glantz, [http://www.tobaccofreecatalog.org/ProductDetails.aspx?id=1&prodid=J742 ''Tobacco: Biology and Politics''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301212618/http://www.tobaccofreecatalog.org/ProductDetails.aspx?id=1&prodid=J742 |date=2007-03-01 }}, WRS HealthEdCo</ref> for high school students and ''The Uninvited Guest'', a story about secondhand smoke, for second graders.
-In May, 1994, Glantz received at his UCSF office two boxes containing 4,000 documents leaked from  Brown & Williamson, the third largest US cigarette manufacturer at the time. The material provided the first definitive proof that the tobacco industry had known for 30 years that nicotine was addictive and caused cancer, and had hidden that knowledge from the public. The documents became a landmark in tobacco litigation, medical scholarship, government policy, and corporate control of information.<ref name="dlib">{{cite journal | url=http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november96/11butter.html | title=The Cigarette Papers: Issues in Publishing Materials in Multiple Formats |author1=Karen Butter |author2=Robin Chandler |author3=John Kunze  |name-list-style=amp | journal=D-Lib Magazine |date=November 1996 }}</ref><ref>{{   | url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/readings/wienerarticle.html | title=The Cigarette Papers | publisher=PBS | date=1 January 1996 | accessdate=17 December 2014 | author=Wiener, Jon}} This is an authorized reprint of an article that appeared in ''[[The Nation]]'' in 1994.</ref> With four co-authors, Glantz analyzed the documents and, with extensive excerpts, published the findings as ''The Cigarette Papers''.
+In May, 1994, Glantz received at his UCSF office two boxes containing 4,000 documents leaked from  Brown & Williamson, the third largest US cigarette manufacturer at the time. The material provided the first definitive proof that the tobacco industry had known for 30 years that nicotine was addictive and caused cancer, and had hidden that knowledge from the public. The documents became a landmark in tobacco litigation, medical scholarship, government policy, and corporate control of information.<ref name="dlib">{{ journal | url=http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november96/11butter.html | title=The Cigarette Papers: Issues in Publishing Materials in Multiple Formats |author1=Karen Butter |author2=Robin Chandler |author3=John Kunze  |name-list-style=amp | journal=D-Lib Magazine |date=November 1996 }}</ref><ref>{{   | url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/readings/wienerarticle.html | title=The Cigarette Papers | publisher=PBS | date=1 January 1996 | accessdate=17 December 2014 | author=Wiener, Jon}} This is an authorized reprint of an article that appeared in ''[[The Nation]]'' in 1994.</ref> With four co-authors, Glantz analyzed the documents and, with extensive excerpts, published the findings as ''The Cigarette Papers''.
 Glantz appears in several investigative [[wikipedia:documentary|documentaries]]: ''Cigarette Wars'' (2011), a [[wikipedia:CNBC]] examination of how the tobacco industry in America "continues to thrive";<ref>{{   | url=https://www.cnbc.com/id/41644550#. | title=Cigarette Wars | publisher=CNBC | accessdate=8 March 2015}}</ref> and ''[[wikipedia:Merchants of Doubt (film)|Merchants of Doubt]]'' (2014), based on the non-fiction book, ''[[wikipedia:Merchants of Doubt]]'', in which the leaked Brown & Williamson tobacco documents play a key role in illustrating tactics created by tobacco companies and copied by others.<ref>{{   | url=http://sonyclassics.com/merchantsofdoubt/ | title=Merchants of Doubt | publisher=Sony Pictures Classics | accessdate=8 March 2015}}</ref>
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 == Harassment allegations ==
-On December 6, 2017, a former postdoctoral researcher in Glantz's department filed a complaint of sexual harassment against him in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging that Glantz subjected her to misogynistic, racially and sexually insensitive behavior from 2015 to 2017.<ref>{{   | publisher = Buzzfeed | date = December 7, 2017 | url = https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/stanton-glantz-sexual-harassment-lawsuit | title =  A High-Profile Anti-Tobacco Crusader Is Being Sued For Sexual Harassment}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | work = The Daily Californian | date = December 7, 2017 | url =  http://www.dailycal.org/2017/12/06/former-ucsf-researcher-sues-uc-regents-ucsf-professor-alleged-sex-harassment/ | title = Former UCSF researcher sues UC regents, UCSF professor for alleged sex harassment}}</ref> The researcher also alleged that, when she complained about the harassment to the university, Glantz retaliated by removing her name from a research paper she had co-authored.<ref>{{cite news | work = San Francisco Examiner | url = http://www.sfexaminer.com/ucsf-professor-prominent-tobacco-control-activist-accused-sexual-harassment-former-mentee/ | title = UCSF professor, prominent tobacco control activist accused of sexual harassment by former mentee}}</ref> Confidential internal UCSF investigations concluded that Glantz had "more likely than not" harassed the former researcher, and that his conduct constituted "hostile work environment sexual harassment".<ref name="sf-chron">{{cite news | work = San Francisco Chronicle | title = UCSF agrees to $150K settlement over sexual harassment claim | first = Nanette | last = Asimov | date = October 19, 2018 | url = https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/UCSF-agrees-to-150K-settlement-over-sexual-13318878.php}}</ref><ref name="stat"/> UCSF concluded that Glantz had violated the Faculty Code of Conduct, and proposed that he take remedial anti-harassment training and that a letter of censure be placed in his personnel file.<ref name="stat"/> In October 2018, UCSF settled the lawsuit against Glantz for $150,000; Glantz and the University of California continue to dispute the allegations.<ref name="stat"/>
+On December 6, 2017, a former postdoctoral researcher in Glantz's department filed a complaint of sexual harassment against him in San Francisco Superior Court, alleging that Glantz subjected her to misogynistic, racially and sexually insensitive behavior from 2015 to 2017.<ref>{{   | publisher = Buzzfeed | date = December 7, 2017 | url = https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/stanton-glantz-sexual-harassment-lawsuit | title =  A High-Profile Anti-Tobacco Crusader Is Being Sued For Sexual Harassment}}</ref><ref>{{ news | work = The Daily Californian | date = December 7, 2017 | url =  http://www.dailycal.org/2017/12/06/former-ucsf-researcher-sues-uc-regents-ucsf-professor-alleged-sex-harassment/ | title = Former UCSF researcher sues UC regents, UCSF professor for alleged sex harassment}}</ref> The researcher also alleged that, when she complained about the harassment to the university, Glantz retaliated by removing her name from a research paper she had co-authored.<ref>{{ news | work = San Francisco Examiner | url = http://www.sfexaminer.com/ucsf-professor-prominent-tobacco-control-activist-accused-sexual-harassment-former-mentee/ | title = UCSF professor, prominent tobacco control activist accused of sexual harassment by former mentee}}</ref> Confidential internal UCSF investigations concluded that Glantz had "more likely than not" harassed the former researcher, and that his conduct constituted "hostile work environment sexual harassment".<ref name="sf-chron">{{ news | work = San Francisco Chronicle | title = UCSF agrees to $150K settlement over sexual harassment claim | first = Nanette | last = Asimov | date = October 19, 2018 | url = https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/UCSF-agrees-to-150K-settlement-over-sexual-13318878.php}}</ref><ref name="stat"/> UCSF concluded that Glantz had violated the Faculty Code of Conduct, and proposed that he take remedial anti-harassment training and that a letter of censure be placed in his personnel file.<ref name="stat"/> In October 2018, UCSF settled the lawsuit against Glantz for $150,000; Glantz and the University of California continue to dispute the allegations.<ref name="stat"/>
 Recently he stepped down from his position and went into retirement, it is suspected that he may have been pressured, or have had another allegation made by a student, this is speculation, and there is no evidence to prove it.