Award Winners Used Tobacco-Industry Documents to Educate Americans on Tactics Used To Hook Smokers At the World Conference on Tobacco or Health, the American Legacy Foundation® honored three tobacco control leaders for their efforts to educate the public by using tobacco industry documents. The awardees used actual tobacco industry documentation to reveal tactics that tobacco companies have used to attract and addict smokers to tobacco products. Courtney Gregoire, daughter of Christine Gregoire, Washington State Governor and founding Board Chair of the American Legacy Foundation, presented the awards at a July 13 ceremony in Washington, DC. Two individuals were presented with The Sybil G. Jacobs Adult Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Documents: Ruth E. Malone, R.N., Ph.D., professor of nursing and health policy at the University of California, San Francisco was honored for using the once-secret documents as underpinnings for vigorous research to empower underserved communities. Ray Goldstein is a freelance paralegal from California, whose use of the documents has paved the way for jury verdicts against the tobacco industry, including Horowitz vs. Lorillard, in 1995 and Boeken vs. Philip Morris in 2001. The Christine O. Gregoire Youth/Young Adult Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Documents went to 23-year old Andrew Berndt, a grant manager for the Minnesota Department of Health. At age 12, Berndt worked with the Minnesota Smoke- Free Coalition to raise awareness and support the state's tobacco industry settlement. At the State Department of Health, Berndt also uses industry documents to educate teens on the manipulative marketing tactics used by the tobacco industry. His work focuses on arming young people with the skills necessary to fight for smoke-free policies in their communities. The foundation applauds the efforts of these individuals, who are using once-secret information from the tobacco industry to educate Americans - in Big Tobacco's own words.