Michael J. McFadden

Michael J. McFadden’s "Dissecting Antismokers’ Brains" has served as an inspiration and handbook for the Free Choice movement in its battle with antismoking forces and their never-ending efforts to raise tobacco taxes and implement more extreme smoking bans. "TobakkoNacht – The Antismoking Endgame" complements his earlier work by providing a toolbox, armory, and map for carrying the fight into and through the second decade of the 2000s.

Mr. McFadden grew up in Brooklyn, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Manhattan College’s Peace Studies and Psychology programs, and won a full fellowship to the Wharton School's doctoral program in Peace Science to study statistics and propaganda analysis.

He left Penn after two years to host a Quaker training center in non-violent activism and has worked at various levels in the areas of peace activism and social change ever since. His activities have ranged from ecologically-friendly transport advocacy to being formally commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II to plan and conduct nonviolence training workshops in Canada. He has worked as a lab tech, peace canvasser, online conference coordinator with CNN, and a free-lance book editor. He serves without compensation on the Boards of Directors of both The International Coalition Against Prohibition and FORCES International, and works with many grassroots Free Choice groups.

He currently lives and bicycles in West Philadelphia where he shares a small row house with a psychotic cat, a quiet squirrel, and assorted other creatures.