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Goldberg To Discuss Tobacco Marketing At Columbia University

A Smeal College of Business professor will join representatives from the media, the health-care industry, government, and academia at a Columbia University conference this week to discuss tobacco and how it affects American youth.

Goldberg To Discuss Tobacco Marketing At Columbia University

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (September 18, 2006) – A Smeal College of Business professor will join representatives from the media, the health-care industry, government, and academia at a Columbia University conference this week to discuss tobacco and how it affects American youth.

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) is sponsoring the conference, which has Marvin Goldberg, Irving and Irene Bard Professor of Business Administration, addressing the effects of tobacco advertising on children with delegates from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, the American Legacy Foundation, and the American Academy of Advertising.

"Up in Smoke: Tobacco and American Youth" will be held Sept. 21 at The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Conference Center in New York. Goldberg's panel, "Smoke and Mirrors: Advertising and Tobacco," gets underway at 11:05 a.m.

Goldberg was invited to participate because of his extensive research on the relationship between tobacco advertising and adolescent smoking. He is an expert in social marketing and has written numerous scholarly papers on the effects of alcohol, food, and tobacco marketing on young people. His research also identifies strategies for helping children think critically about advertising messages.

He has a master's degree in sociology from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Illinois.

Joining Goldberg on CASA panel are moderator Jackie Judd, vice president and senior advisor for communications, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; Cheryl Healton, president and CEO, The American Legacy Foundation; and Charles Taylor, John A. Murphy Professor of Marketing, Villanova University.

Other participants in the CASA conference include Timothy Johnson, medical editor, ABC News; Lesley Stahl, correspondent, CBS News; Louis Sullivan, former secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Jeffrey Toobin, Legal Analyst, CNN; Jack Valenti, former president and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America; and Nora Volkow, director, National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.

For more information, visit www.casacolumbia.org.

REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.

Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.

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