Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...complaints against Philip Morris--which include the unique magnitude of the health hazard constituted by cigarette smoking, the inherent rather than potential harmfulness of cigarettes, and the active promotion through advertising of smoking-a Crimson undergraduate poll revealed that half of those surveyed felt Harvard should retain its tobacco holdings...
...that the guiding tenet of American commerce has been consumer freedom of choice, from the days of wagon-pushing peddlers selling magic elixirs to computerized, stylized Madison Avenue marketing. As long as smokers understand the risks cigarettes pose, many believe, others have no business trying to discourage or eliminate tobacco production...
This freedom-o-choice argument may convince some that the 300,000 annual deaths in the U.S. linked to smoking to do not warrant shareholder steps like divestiture. The question becomes much less fuzzy, however, when we look beyond our own borders to the rapacious marketing practices of tobacco companies in foreign countries, especially the Third World. The ACSR recommendations addresses this concern only briefly, but details of these practices reveal the truly exploitative intentions of films like Philip Morris and provide a moving case for Harvard to divest in tobacco stock...
During the mid-1970's, domestic cigarette sales plummeted as American consumers became more aware, and fearful, of the health consequences of smoking. Meanwhile, government price supports for tobacco created excess tobacco stockpiles to aggravate the problem. In presumably smoke-filled rooms, executives of major U.S. tobacco companies--like Philip Morris and U.S. Tobacco--decided the answer to the problem was to expand markets and foist American tobacco on the rest of the world...
...though two-wheeled vehicles are exempt from all traffic laws. Litterbugs convert their communities into trash dumps. Widespread flurries of ordinances have failed to clear public places of high-decibel portable radios, just as earlier laws failed to wipe out the beer-soaked hooliganism that plagues many parks. Tobacco addicts remain hopelessly blind to signs that say NO SMOKING. Respectably dressed pot smokers no longer bother to duck out of public sight to pass around a joint. The flagrant use of cocaine is a festering scandal in middle-and upper-class life. And then there are (hello, Everybody!) the jaywalkers...