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While the days of cigarette ads featuring smiling physicians are long gone, even today there remains a hypocritical culture of poor health among doctors. While it would seem that the very people whose job is to maintain the health of their patients would make better health decisions than smoking, the...
Smoking in particular has contributed to the widening gap, according to the authors, David M. Cutler, an applied economics professor, and Ellen Meara, an assistant professor of health care policy at the Mecical School. They cited education-related differences in cigarette use as a key factor.
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Allan M. Brandt, whose recent book, “The Cigarette Century,” addresses the history of cigarette consumption in the U.S., said he is in full support of the plan.
CORRECTION APPENDED Starting next spring, there will be no more stray cigarette butts lying around Harvard Medical School.
“The nature of hookah smoking is that you inhale deeply and hold on to tremendous amounts of smoke—not like taking a little puff on a cigarette, which is dangerous enough,” he said.