October 5, 2007

U. of Calif. Restricts Tobacco Money

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

The University of California Board of Regents, which had been considering an outright ban on accepting tobacco-industry money for research, has agreed to an alternative policy that will not require researchers to go cold turkey.

While some professors and regents had pushed for the ban, the administration and the faculty governing body had opposed it as an impingement on academic freedom.

Backers of the proposed ban had argued that the tobacco industry's history of subverting

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