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...Wacker says UHS has distributed pamphlets, trained clinical and mental health workers and the expanded the Health Educator's office...
Past experience has shown that Harvard also has low incidences of such diseases as gonorrhea and syphilis, Wacker says. "The lower incidence of sexually transmitted diseases in general speaks to the fact that probably casual sex on a pick-up basis is not very common among the group. Otherwise we would have seen a higher level of incidence compared to the rest of the population," the director says...
...believe that most Harvard students do understand that there is a danger involved in risky sexual behavior. They understand there is a risk, and they avoid the risk," Wacker says...
...Back in the mid-1970s, we discovered that smoking among Harvard students was very low," Wacker says. UHS found that around 10 percent of Harvard students smoked when they entered the College--compared with 35 percent nationwide for their age group. By the middle of the decade, when the Surgeon General declared smoking caused cancer, Wacker says, "Most people had gone all the way through school hearing smoking caused cancer...
...more prestigious the college, the less smoking," says Wacker, adding that the same was true for student heroin...