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...underage smoking just as the tobacco companies have. We believe that to smoke is a decision made by mature and consenting adults. Advertisements don't make people buy things. I see a lot of cereal advertisements, and that doesn't make me buy cereal. I think that it is peer pressure that leads more teens to smoke, and the regulation of that is something best left to the parents," says Finch...

Author: By Brant K. Wong, | Title: Burning Out at Harvard | 12/13/1995 | See Source »

Others, such as Charles C. Finch, executive director of America's Golden Leaf Tobacco Growers Information Committee, argue that peer pressure rather than tobacco advertising drivers teenagers to smoke...

Author: By Brant K. Wong, | Title: Burning Out at Harvard | 12/13/1995 | See Source »

While it is unlikely that tobacco advertisements or peer pressure will make many Harvard students take up the habit of smoking. Grammarossa points out that college is often a place where pre-existing smoking habits are enforced by peer groups that share the habit. Smoking is very much a social activity, she says...

Author: By Brant K. Wong, | Title: Burning Out at Harvard | 12/13/1995 | See Source »

While many students do feel peer pressure to smoke, a countervailing trend of health consciousness also makes smoking difficult. Wendy A. Mackey-Kydd, a health educator at University Health Services, says, "It's almost like a social pariah to be a smoker, at least for an adult, and it may be for a college student...

Author: By Brant K. Wong, | Title: Burning Out at Harvard | 12/13/1995 | See Source »

Matsuguchi and Weiser accepted the Office of Research Integrity's findings of misconduct and settled their cases, agreeing not to serve on a federally financed research project or a peer-review board for three years, Bivens said...

Author: By Douglas M. Pravda, | Title: NIH Cites Two Researchers For Misconduct | 12/12/1995 | See Source »

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