Word: tobacco
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...faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) last Thursday approved a decision not to accept any research funding from tobacco companies and their subsidiaries, opening the way for the school to receive funds from the 1998 settlement of states’ lawsuits against the tobacco industry. The move formalizes an unofficial policy that has existed since...
...motion, originally proposed by HSPH Dean Barry R. Bloom, precludes research funding from tobacco manufacturers and all companies owned by the industry, including those that do not themselves make tobacco products...
...subpoena is very narrowly tailored,” said John Sorrells, a spokesperson for Phillip Morris, one of the tobacco companies sued by the government...
With the University’s refusal to provide the documents, the tobacco companies could now ask a judge to rule on Harvard’s objections and potentially force the University to comply...
Harvard was one of eight universities served with subpoenas from the tobacco industry, Sorrells said...