The Cigarette Butt Advisory Group (CBAG) is an informal group of experts who provide advice and focus attention on tobacco waste issues regionally and nationally.  Current CBAG members include:

• Tom Novotny- Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, San Diego State University

• Stephanie Barger - Executive Director, Earth Resource Foundation

• Richard L. Barnes - Associate Specialist, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of Califonia, San Francisco

• Doug Blanke - Executive Director, Tobacco Control Legal Consortium

• Marie Boman - Program Manager/Research Scientist, Center for Epidemiology and Community Health, San Diego State University

• Clifton Curtis - Director, The Varda Group for Environment and Sustainability

• Richard A. Daynard - Professor of Law, Northeastern Univeristy School of Law

• Bronson Frick - Associate Director, Americans for Nonsmokers Rights 

• Richard M. Frank - Executive Director, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) , U.C. Berkeley School of Law

• Philip Gardiner - University of California Office of the President

• Richard M. Gersberg - Professor of Environmental Health, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University

• Mark Gold - President, Heal the Bay

• Brad Harris - Ph. D. Candidate, Stanford University

• Paul Ledesma - City Government Zero Waste Coordinator, SFEnvironment City of San Francisco

• Kristen Lum - Medical Student, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine

• Stefanie Sekich, Outreach Manager, Surfrider Foundation

• Elizabeth (Libby) Smith, Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco

• Cory Yep (Technical Advisor) - Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Legislation and Regulatory Policy, Department of Toxic Substances Control