Word: health
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard, with the luck to be located in Massachusetts, one might think the Smokeout is a day to rest on our laurels. Harvard buildings are already smoke-free, and on Tuesday the Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced that Massachusetts has 150,000 fewer smokers than it did six years ago. Even the rate of teens who are starting to smoke is down slightly. These results, as well as extensive lobbying pressure, have convinced Governor A. Paul Celucci that the tobacco settlement in the budget should be allocated as planned, including $6.7 million to smoking-cessation programs...
First, nonsmokers should remember there is more to tobacco companies than tobacco. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Web site, www.getoutraged.com, not only continues the themes of their well-placed, blunt ads but has a "secrets" section that shows the links between the tobacco parent companies and a lot of seemingly unrelated industries. The site has a number of get-involved resources for smokers and nonsmokers alike, as well as snippets of the internal industry memos that suggested targeting minors through give-aways and cartoon characters like Joe Camel was a way to ensure the industry's future...
...cessation programs in Massachusetts for the American Cancer Society and the Smoker's Quit Line (1-800-TRY-TO-STOP). "Very often college students are in a location where they may be affected by other smokers, like at parties," said Giebfried, a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health. He said that young adults are the age group least likely to quit, and that there are more young men trying to quit than young women, which means perhaps more fetuses and children suffering with a smoking mother...
Giebfried cheered the numbers from the Department of Public Health but pointed out the survey showed that minors still had easy access to cigarettes. He said this is a problem for law enforcement but also for parents and older siblings--like college students--who smoke. Smokers "should not leave their cigarettes around," Giebfried said, "because the younger individual often picks up those cigarettes and either uses them or passes them around at school." He compared the ethical responsibility to be vigilant on cigarettes at home to the laws that regulate that parents lock up their firearms. That way, even...
...became a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington-based think tank focusing on health care issues...