Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, there is much to be done. Despite legislation and countless studies showing the ill effects of tobacco on smokers and on those with whom they live, people continue to smoke. I will not now revert to your mother and rattle off the terrible things smoking does to your body. I am sure the smokers in the readership would tell me the problem is not ignorance; it's denial. It's just that smoking seems to ease out the wrinkles of the Harvard day and keeps things focused at the high-strung level of Harvard student performance...
First, nonsmokers should remember there is more to tobacco companies than tobacco. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Web site, www.getoutraged.com, not only continues the themes of their well-placed, blunt ads but has a "secrets" section that shows the links between the tobacco parent companies and a lot of seemingly unrelated industries. The site has a number of get-involved resources for smokers and nonsmokers alike, as well as snippets of the internal industry memos that suggested targeting minors through give-aways and cartoon characters like Joe Camel was a way to ensure the industry's future...
...fact that Philip Morris has been exploiting its connections to Kraft to get its name on public-service (or self-service?) spots during televised weekend sporting events might make you reconsider how those alliances function and for whom. The same could easily be said of the other tobacco firms and their families of products...
...this addiction should be taken seriously. Information provided by Jim Michie, the spokeperson for SAMHSA, suggested that the Great American Smokeout should help college students focus on their tobacco addiction: "Just as they think about college as a means to achieve their long-term career goals, students should look at stopping smoking as a way to live long enough to enjoy what their hard work and sacrifice have earned them...
Thirty of the proposals dealt with the environment, seven with labor practices and two with the tobacco industry...