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...believe the decision by the faculty represents a powerful statement from public health professionals that we all must focus on efforts to prevent the addiction and terrible consequences of tobacco,” Bloom said in a statement after the vote...
...adoption of the policy will allow HSPH to receive funding from the American Legacy Foundation, a public research group established by the 1998 settlement of the case brought by 46 states against the tobacco industry...
...Legacy Foundation has set aside $2.5 million for their Scholarship, Teaching, and Education for Tobacco Use Prevention (STEP UP) Fund, which will be used to provide individual research funding for faculty and students of schools of public health, including HSPH—however, the funding is only available if a school refuses to accept grants from tobacco companies...
...deans of the 31 universities that make up the American Schools of Public Health—including Harvard—unanimously agreed to adopt policies rejecting further donations from the tobacco industry at their respective institutions...
Harvard has long wrestled with its ties to funding from the tobacco industry. In 1989, then-President Derek C. Bok announced the University would sell all of its stock in tobacco companies...