Tag: Cigarettes

  • Health

    Smoke and fire

    Vaughan Rees of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shares his thoughts on the intense debate in Westminster over a push to ban tobacco sales. The ban was defeated, but the battle is not yet over.

  • Health

    Where there’s smoke, there’s ire

    Speakers at a Harvard School of Public Health conference on smoking hailed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s work to give the Food and Drug Administration new regulatory power over tobacco products and said, if wielded properly, it could prove a key weapon for better health.

  • Science & Tech

    You are where you live

    A Harvard School of Public Health associate professor examines the link between health and neighborhoods to see whether people’s residential landscapes matter.