Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Amicus Curiae
John F. Banshaf III, Counsel of RecordAction on Smoking and Health is the oldest and largest antismoking organization in the country. In 1977, it petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to regulate cigarettes, becoming the first organization to do so. John F. Banshaf III is the Executive Director of ASH. He has been an antismoking activist for over 30 years. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for the Petitioners as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on July 8, 1999.Under Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council (1984), the Fourth Circuit should have deferred to the…
