Michael Pertschuk

Michael Pertschuk was a Commissioner of the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) circa 1984.

= Biography =

Michael Pertschuk is former chairman of the Federal Trade Commission in 1984.(E. Whelan 1984). He stated, "There never has been a health hazard so perfectly proven as smoking, and it is a measure of the [Council for Tobacco Research's] success that it is able to create the illusion of controversy in what is so elegantly a closed scientific case."(Wall Street Journal, 2/11/93).

After he left the FTC, Perschuk ran the Advocacy Institute, an antismoking group.(Wall Street Journal, 3/30/94). Lawyers for the American Tobacco Company filed a subpoena circa 3/94 for access to the membership list of a computer network used by the Advocacy Institute. The Institute sought to quash the subpoena.(WSJ 3/30/94). The Advocacy Institute was located at 1707 L Street, N.W., Suite 400, Washington, D.C., 20036.(Castano Expert List)


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