It looks like Banzhaf invested a lifetime in his career as a law professor.
His 1960’s activities were chronicled in a chapter of a book written by the former CBS News President Fred Friendly about ‘fairness’ in broadcasting, ‘The Good Guys, The Bad Guys and The First Amendment’.
Banzhaf started his campaign against cigarette ads in the media by demanding “fairness” and “equal time” for anti-smoking messages.
Banzhaf talked about his activism against TV cigarette advertising as a part of his lectures on administrative law.
His father basically smoked himself to death, and John made it his personal mission to go after the tobacco companies. He was (and still is) an expert on and a brilliant practitioner under the federal Administrative Procedure Act. Whether or not you agree with the cases and legal positions he took, you really couldn’t have a better teacher of administrative law than John Banzhaf. I was very lucky indeed.
he sounds like one of the original founding Nanny Staters