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"We also talked to one large corporation headquarters in Cambridge. They had a hard time coming into compliance," says Schelling, who has been the only director of the four-year old Institute.
Littauer Professor of Political Economy Thomas C. Schelling has quit smoking four times, and now, as director of the Kennedy School's Institute for the Study of Smoking Behavior and Policy, Schelling has been working to understand how smoking laws affect people's willingness to quit the tobacco habit, as...
"Before the [Cambridge] law went into effect we called up people in Cambridge, and then we called them three months after it went into effect to see how the law had affected them. What we found was that there was a significant [environmental] difference in the workplaces and in public...
"The difficulties are that in a large corporation with different buildings it's hard to decide who enforces the law. Will it be the personnel head or the leader of health safety? And it's difficult to cope with union employees who see smoking as something that comes under collective...
Albright emphasized the new no-smoking policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, which prompted Schelling to predict that next year "very, very serious regulations on smoking will have been put into effect by the Kennedy School, by the city of Cambridge and by the state of Massachusetts."