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...wants or needs-whether it be the de-mothballing of a battleship or subsidies to tobacco growers-the fact remains that taxes do pay for schools and libraries, hospitals and highways, police and prisons, and research into outer space. "Taxes," said Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., "are what we pay for civilized society...
Such so-called 'scientific' research groups include the Calorie Control Council, a coalition of dietary product manufacturers who prevented the proposed ban on saccharin in 1977 with a massive ad campaign aimed a diet-drink fanatics, and the Council on Tobacco Research, a group to which five of the six principal cigarette manufacturers belong, which still denies the well-established causal lationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. These coalitions attempt toe refute self-incriminating data about their products under he guise of "unbiased" health councils. Countless other similar "scientific" cancer research centers are supported solely by industrial funds...
...companies, Charles D. Spencer & Associates, a Chicago-based research firm, found that 27% were offering special incentives for early retirement. Among the corporations that have started such programs in the past two years: Polaroid, Deere and Xerox. A recent addition to the list is R.J. Reynolds, the largest U.S. tobacco company. In January, Reynolds offered pension benefits and a bonus of a year's salary to workers in its headquarters town of Winston-Salem, N.C., who by next year will be 55 or older and will have worked at least ten years for the company. Reynolds is concerned that...
DESPITE THE VALIANT EFFORTS of international organizations like the World Health Organization, the tobacco firms seem unlikely to start policing their own operation. For every dollar spent trying to educate Third World smokers about the health consequences of their habit, the tobacco companies spend $10 to $20 on advertising. The ACSR labeled Philip Morris' response to a shareholder resolution last year concerning the company's activities in the Third World "callous and misleading." And the governments of victimized Third World nations also offer little hope for a solution--many have yet to recognize the health hazards that await, and where...
Until Congress awakens to the deadly ramifications of U.S. tobacco trade, the problem will remain intractable. But powerlessness should not excuse Harvard from adopting a policy of divestiture of its Philip Morris stock. Even if divestiture dots nothing to force Philip Morris to alter its foreign trade practices, the moral justification for financially supporting tobacco production and export is even thinner than for investing in South Africa or nuclear weapons production, the other hotly debated divestiture issues. Continuing to ignore--or worse, endorse--the injustice our tobacco industry imposes crisis. Instead, our silence will not add to our responsibility...