Group Against Smoking Pollution/Group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution? ("GASP)"

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Group Against Smoking Pollution, also known as the Group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution, is known by the acronym of GASP. GASP is a not-for-profit corporation founded in 1976 as the California Group Against Smoking Pollution (GASP). Now there are several state branches of GASP around the country.

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The Group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution is an antismoking group.(E. Whelan 1984).

Americans for Nonsmokers Rights (ANR) is a California not-for-profit corporation founded in 1976 as the California Group Against Smoking Pollution (GASP). ANR is a national advocacy organization whose mission is to protect nonsmokers from passive smoking and children from addiction to tobacco.(ANR v. State of CA, Complaint 3/23/94). See Americans for Nonsmokers Rights, TTLA Almanac - Names.

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