Big tobacco stubs out research money

Big tobacco is pulling its money out of academic research -- kind of. Tobacco company Philip Morris told researchers in September of last year that it was ending its controversial extramural research program, Science linkurl:reported;http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/319/5867/1173a today. But some funding from the company remains. The news of the ended sponsorship spread this month when University of California President Robert Dynes noted in a February 5 letter to the UC chancell