Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tobacco Institute, as well as tobacco companies were given the opportunity to respond, but all had policies prohibiting them from commenting to student newspapers...
...Farmers have always discouraged teenage and 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...
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...
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...
Smokers at Harvard also tend to gravitate towards certain concentrations, with humanities concentrations having the highest percentage of smoking students (42 percent), social sciences having 41 percent, and natural and applied sciences having 28 percent. A smoker was defined here as one who had used a tobacco product at least once in the past year...