New
Jersey GASP has earned congratulations and thanks from Surgeon
General C. Everett Koop, Senator Lautenberg, Governor Florio,
media, legislators, health professionals, organizations,
businesses, and citizens. Specifically, the New Jersey Department
of Health and Senior Services, Americans for Nonsmokers'
Rights, the American Lung Association of New Jersey, and
the American Cancer Society, New Jersey, have given awards
to New Jersey GASP.
New
Jersey GASP's founders, officers, and staff have won numerous
awards for their work in combating the tobacco problem.
Executive
Director Regina Carlson was given the Citizen's Award by
The Academy of Medicine of New Jersey in 1998. In 1997 she
was given the ASH 30th Anniversary Award by Action on Smoking
and Health, Washington, D.C. In November, 1997 she was named
the Advocate of the Year in Women's Health by the National
Council on Women's Health. She won the Presidential Merit
Award of the New Jersey Local Boards of Health Association
in 1996 and was also recognized as a New Jersey Woman of
Achievement by Douglass College, Rutgers University, and
the New Jersey State Federation of Women's Clubs in 1996.
She
won the Sparkplug Award (for igniting the energy of others)
from the Advocacy Institute, Washington, D.C. in 1989 and
was honored by Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco as a "founder
of the movement to prevent tobacco industry access to youth"
in 1993. She was recognized for outstanding efforts toward
creating smokefree communities by the Essex and Union County
ASSIST Coalition in 1995, and was given the Bertha Clark
Memorial Clean Air Award in 1986. In 1984 she was given
the key to the city of Omaha. She has also won awards from
the Sussex, Warren, and Morris Council on Alcohol and Drug
Abuse, the Essex-Union Communities Against Tobacco Coalition
(2002), and the Sussex Communities Against Tobacco (2002).
Attorney
Karen Blumenfeld was given the Award for Excellence in Tobacco
Prevention and Control by the Commissioner of the New Jersey
Department of Health and Senior Services in March, 1996.
That same year she won the Presidential Merit Award of the
New Jersey Local Boards of Health Association.
Vice
President Susan Goldman Kapoor was given the first New Jersey
Department of Health and Senior Services Susan Lenox Goldman
Award for Excellence in Tobacco Control in July 2002. The
award was named in her honor.
Dr.
John Slade, New Jersey GASP Vice President from 1986 until
his death in 2002, internationally recognized as a key tobacco-industry
opponent, won the President's Award from the New Jersey
Public Health Association, was the youngest recipient of
the Osborne Award of the New Jersey Health Officer's Association,
and was the recipient of the Goethe Challenge Trophy of
the German Medical Association in 1995.
