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Harvard recently began taking a more aggressive approach to tobacco issues, according to John D. Donahue, the Raymond Bernon Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government and an ACSR member last year...
Donahue recalled one tobacco-related issue that was slightly more controversial. One shareholder proposal asked the company H.B. Fuller, which makes glue, to stop selling its product to cigarette companies...
...Fuller, I thought, was kind of pushing the envelope," Donahue said. "Our thinking was that Harvard ought to take a fairly strong anti-tobacco stance, just as in previous years it as adopted an anti-alcohol stance...
Although the CCSR abstained, it "wrote a letter to the company explaining Harvard's policy against tobacco holdings," the report reads...
Badaracco said he thinks the committee is moving towards a "common understanding on to how to draw a boundary around tobacco activities...