Malmgren, the Tobacco Institute's senior vice president for state activities, prepared a report for Samuel Chilcote, president of the Tobacco Institute, in which he generalized from the tobacco industry's experiences in California, Massachusetts, and Washington State to design an Expanded Local Program for the tobacco industry to use Sophisticated monitoring of local ordinance introductions Ability to respond quickly with locally-based advocates Local consultants who can go door-to-door to educate restaurateurs, business leaders, minority group leaders, representatives from organized labor, and other potential allies The ability to rightfully project a local concern about a given anti-tobacco ordinance, making it more difficult for anti-tobacco leaders to say, The only people who oppose this ordinance are the out-of-state tobacco companie. Reasonably coordinated and effective means to trigger direct mail campaigns, phone bank operations and other contacts50 [emphasis in original] Malmgren also cited one of the Tobacco Institute's strengths in California: The industry team quickly employs coalition coordinators who canquickly and effectivelydo the necessary legwork to develop support for individual restaurateurs, retailers, hoteliers, local labor leaders and others.50 Significant local opposition to local ordinances was unlikely to exist without an employed coalition coordinator

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