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Anti-smoking groups are taking aim at Harvard Education School Dean Patricia A. Graham, charging that her association with the RJR Nabisco Foundation is inappropriate and may be creating a conflict of interest at the Ed School...
Daynard said he suspects Graham might haveinfluenced that decision to maintain the supportof the RJR Nabisco Foundation. "It is certainlysomething that deserves further explanation,"Daynard said. "I suspect that there might be aconflict of interest...
...letter went on to say, "No matter what goodthis program promises, the implicit legitimationof RJR and its cigarettes will produce vastlygreater negative consequences in terms ofaddiction, disease and death...
...think on balance RJR has made a carefulbusiness decision because it will earn more than$30 million by undermining the anti-smokingmessage coming out of the schools," Daynard latertold The Crimson...
...Virginia Slims tennis tournaments, for using "the prestige and the image of the athlete" to tempt young people to light up. Mark Green's first official act as New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs was to fire off a letter last week to Louis Gerstner, chairman of RJR Nabisco, the cigarette maker's parent company, criticizing the use of a cartoon character in Camel ads. "Isn't this ad campaign an obvious attempt to lure children into smoking?" Green wrote. Meanwhile, New York Governor Mario Cuomo said he would back a bill to ban most cigarette-vending machines...