Campus Poll

The results of a recent poll of college students confirm what many at Harvard may already suspect: students across the country are drinking more and smoking less tobacco.

The survey, conducted by College Marketing and Research Corporation, a subsidiary of Playboy, and Leslie A. Riffkin & Associates, indicates that 74 per cent of the 4170 American students surveyed drink beer, 84 use alcohol, but only 28 per cent smoke cigarettes.

C. Burris Young '55, associate dean of freshmen, said yesterday that smoking has been on the decline for the past five years. "Something like 17 men and 23 women smoke out of 1500-odd rooming applications," he said. Young added that he thought the drinking figures were "a little high."

The poll further indicated that 29 per cent of students drive foreign cars, 47 per cent own stereo speakers, 46 per cent use stomach pain relievers, and 78 per cent use aspirin and other headache pain killers.