Tobacco News on the Web Archive, Dec. 1996
Tobacco News on the Web
Archive, Dec. 1996
12/03/96 PET Scan Reveals Addictive Behavior Brain chemistry & addiction. SF Chron
11/96 Profiles of Top Marketers at Philip Morris, RJR Ad Age Power 50, 1996
12/01/96 "Watchdog Group" Hid Tobacco Link ContributionsWatch chose taxes over non-profit requirements. Philip Morris financed report on trial lawyers' contributions. CW went from a spectacular start to a spectacular loss of reputation and credibility. A fascinating examination of names and events. From the Richmond Times-Dispatch
12/03/96 Fed Court Postpones MA Cigarette Ingredient Disclosure Battle
12/03/96 EU to Propose Sweeping Tobacco Rules Reuters
12/03/96 Imperial Tobacco to Develop Virtual Reality Application Outer Edge Inc. . . . has completed signing an initial letter of intent with Imperial Tobacco Inc., to develop a custom virtual reality product. . . . [which] will enable market researchers to effectively and efficiently monitor, gather and analyze market research data in a virtual, fully interactive environment Business Wire
12/03/96 "We've Fought the Good Fight" Kessler looks back, in Newsweek
12/03/96 Addiction's Double Standard Why is alcohol treated so differently by science and society? Washington Post
12/03/96 Dept. of Justice Lawyers File 149-page Brief in Defense of FDA Rules Richmond Times-Dispatch. Analysts Keeping Close Watch on Case Reuters
12/04/96 RJR's Eclipse Wins one of top 10 „most misleading, unfair and irresponsible¾ Ad Campaigns of the Year the Center for Science in the Public Interest: R.J. Reynolds, for deceptively implying that new reduced-smoke Eclipse cigarettes are safer than traditional cigarettes.
12/04/96 Spinning the Web "[anti-corporate] rogue sites, as they're known, have given birth to eWorks, a PR firm devoted exclusively to helping corporations spin the Web Village Voice
12/05/96 Cowboys, Camels, and the First Amendment -- The FDA's
Restrictions on Tobacco Advertising Today's New England Journal of Medicine addresses legal issues.
12/05/96 Cowboys, Camels, and the First Amendment -- The FDA's
12/05/96 TV Ads Blast Tobcos on Targetting Minors SF Examiner
12/05/96 Nicoderm vs. Nicotrol in Court: SmithKline Sues McNeil to halt Nicotrol's comparative ads. Your Health Daily. Meanwhile, the Nicotrol Inhaler is to be Released in Sweden PR Newswire
12/06/96. RIchmond Times-Dispatch features a cornucopia of tobacco stories this week:
12/06/96 ALASKA Advocates Press Again for Tobacco Tax "This fight is not over." Campaign for $1.29 tax will get boost: Gov. plans to introduce bill in Jan. Reuters
12/06/96 VIRGINIA: State Liquor Agents Should be Used for Tobacco Stings--AG Activist AG Gilmore points to VA's lousy arrest record: zero since 1990. Washington Post
12/06/96 Philip J. Hilts's Smokescreen Named One of the Best Business Books of the Year. Hilts . . . portrays Big Tobacco as involved in a conspiracy perpetuated through political funding, half-truths, outright lies, and slick marketing. But . . . the industry's act has been unraveling as the public has been exposed to the convincing testimony of numerous whistle-blowers and a trove of damning corporate documents. . . the book is "accessible and exciting." Business Week
12/07/96 Ann Landers Reprints Joan Beck Article Washington Post. Columnists in Rare Accord on ACSH book 
"Cigarettes: What the Warning Label Doesn't Tell You
12/07/96 Florida Judge Says RICO Racketeering Claims Look Strong Says he's inclined to let claims stand. Reuters.
12/07/96 Tobacco Divestment Advocates See Progress See Growth in Movement. Reuters
12/07/96 HUNGARY: Males Smoking & Drinking Themselves to Death--Report Reuters
12/08/96 Havel Recovering Will be on Respirator 4-6 days.12/06/96 Havel Has Emergency Tracheotomy Breathing crisis now "significantly improved." Reuters12/05/96 Havel Gets Pneumonia After Cancer Surgery Reuters. Havel's condition is "slightly complicated" by the development, according to Dr. Pavel Pafko, the doctor who has previously told reporters that it was not possible to say if the tumour resulted directly from Havel's chain-smoking, and that, ""The president is a free citizen, and in no case will we recommend that he quit smoking"12/02/96 Vaclav Havel Has 1/2" Malignant Tumor & Half His Lung Removed But the prognosis is good for Czech President & playwright. Wash. Post. And so, The Czechs Puff On . . . Reuters12/07/96. This incredibly obtuse situation has inspired A Curious Case (of Lung Cancer) A Play in Three Acts by, Scott Thompson, who's keeping a jaundiced eye on the wild and wooly Eastern European smoking scene from Poland.
12/08/96 Southerners Lead the US in Smoking The data is in. Your Health Daily.
12/09/96 Why FDA reform and the assault on tobacco will go forward--even without Kessler Business Week. And Barron's tells how Kessler's departure is good for tobacco. (Free Reg.)
12/09/96 4As Urges Advertisers to Self-Regulate Alcohol, Tobacco Ads Big reversal: ad association urges top advertisers to setup a regulatory body that would review advertising for adult-only products that "might have an undue influence on children. Wall St. Journal (Free registration with MS Explorer 3, or Mac version 2.1)
12/09/96 Joe Camel Ad Shop Under a Fax AttackWeb page operator InterActivism urges missives to Mezzina/Brown. The headline's more hysterical than the story. Ad Age.
12/09/96 Tobacco Giant BAT to Break Up? Reuters
12/09/96 Surfing the Net: Smoke in Your Eyes Stop Smoking Sites on the Web. Jerusalem Post
12/10/96 "Nic Net" Nabs Retailers who Sell to Teens Getting tough in Michigan. Detroit News.
12/10/96 Tobacco Inc. has a Tough Row to Hoe An in-depth ovreview by the Christian Science Monitor
12/10/96 CANADA: House of Commons committee on health Hears Testimony on Tob Ad Ban (Bill C-71). Article concentrates on "the stream of witnesses from sports and cultural organizations" like Players Grand Prix, du Maurier Tennis Open, Benson & Hedges International Fireworks Competition. "You have been set up as front people by the tobacco industry to fight their fight for them," said one MP. Montreal Gazette. And here's the NY Times article
12/10/96 Doctors of the Year Dr. Paul Fisher, author of 1991 JAMA article on kids who recognize Joe Camel, paid a price in legal hassles to protect names of the kids. His medical college eventually gave data to RJ Reynolds. Fisher resigned, but continues fighting. Medscape
12/11/96 Tobacco Foes Plan Museum Dr. Alam Blum starts putting his treasure trove public! Houston Chronicle
12/11/96 Randy Juhl, dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy.,favord for FDA Post Fought for over-the-counter nicotine aids. Washington Post
12/11/96 CALIFORNIA: Senator Proposes End of Tobacco Suit Exemption Willie Brown's new tobacco stance emphasized. (He'd co-authored 1987 bill). SF Examiner
12/11/96 Justice Dept. Closes Probe of Healthy Buildings Int'l After looking into allegations of falsified data on secondhand smoke, Dept. wrote HBI, "Based on the evidence presently available to us and the standards of proof applicable in a criminal case, we have closed the file without prosecution." WSJ
12/11/96 AMA Proposes Ban on Nicotine Urges 6-year tapering-off period. Your Health Daily.
12/08/96 Singapore Relaxes Smoking Ban for WTO Congerence Reuters
12/12/96 TAIWAN Will Demonopolize Tobacco Industry by 2000 A response to US objections, the timetable removes a major obstacle to membership in the World Trade Organization. Reuters.
12/12/96 B&W FIles Appeal of Carter Verdict B&W¼s Press Release. PR Presswire
12/13/96 So Much for Ad Bans: Study Finds Smoking Up in China WSJ (Free Reg. with MS I.E.)
12/13/96 Joy of Nicotine at the New York Times That Dec. 8 "Age of Swank and Smoke" insert gets more flack for promoting cigars. Editor & Publisher.
More cigar flack may be read in Choking on Hype, Paula Poundstone's Mother Jones piece. I love the smell of cigars. It reminds me of my grandpa just before he died. And there's a new CIgar Alert from ScarcNet
12/13/96 LAWSUITS IN THE NEWS
12/14/96 The Inhaler Cometh Phil. Inq. Here's the PR from Advanced Therapeutic Products
12/14/96 UK: Women Warned about Rising Smoking Rates, Lung Cancer Your Health Daily
12/15/96 SPECIAL: In-depth profile of Shook, Hardy & Bacon the industry's premier law firm and legal guiding light. LA Times
12/15/96 Philip Morris Sought Youth Smoking Data True answers on smoking habits might be difficult to elicit in the presence of parents, Roper Researchers told Philip Morris in a 1970 memo. We recommend interviewing young people at summer recreation centers (at beaches, public pools, lakes, etc.) And so they did, according to a 1974 memo. Richmond Times-Dispatch's in-depth report on leaked 1970-1988 PM youth study material. Don't forget, UCSF's Galen Library has nicely organized the "secret" PM reports on youth and smoking which were read into the Congressional Record by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) from the floor of the House in the summer of 1995.
12/15/96 Nonsmokers Under a Cloud in France Trying to get French smokers to obey the law can get you fired. Times of London (free reg.)
12/16/96 Meanwhile, at the Wall St. Journal: Tobacco Firms Take Profits in Smugglers' China Trade
12/16/96 Flue-Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corporation Board Member Elected President of the International Tobacco Growers' Association. NC tobacco farmer states, The main aim of my presidency will be to ensure that more people understand the economic and social value of tobacco leaf production to more than 100 countries around the world. Reuters
12/16/96 Where There's Smoke, There's Lawyers Forbes attacks the state "medicaid" lawsuits.
12/16/96 Male Smoking Damages Sperm, Increases Cancer Risk to Children? Men who smoke can damage their sperm and pass the risk of cancer on to their children, British researchers reported on Monday. Reuters
12/16/96 Record U.S. cigarette production seen in 1996 760 billion cigarettes this year. Exports grew 12.5%. Reuters
12/16/96 State Class Actions Picking Up Steam Including a forthcoming Louisiana smokeless case. We will prove that smokeless is much more addictive than cigarettes and is much more geared to children, with flavors like cherry and mint. National Law Journal. Further to the under-reported snuff issue, check out The Oregon Mint-Snuff Co.
12/16/96 Tobacco's Black Market The dirty secret out at last. Part 1 of an MSNBC Special Report. [OVERDESIGNED! Up your browser memory (and it better be Explorer 3), and make sure you've Java and the latest Shockwave. A shame, because the text (even at 9-point!) is terrific. Frank Koughan's important article blown away by stupid special effects (you want great Shockwave, go to Rare Medium).]
12/16/96 NY: Gov. Pataki Announces Anti-Smoking Program Advocates laud focus on children, pregnant women. NY Times
12/16/96 Who's Afraid Of Virginia Slims? Salon's Media Circus looks at Marlboro's Unlimited magazine
12/16/96 British Airways' Concorde Gets Smoking Ban Jan. 1. Eastern European flights exempted. Financial Times (Free Reg)
12/17/96 Huffing and Puffery On Cigar Aficionado's latest tome. Washington Post
12/17/96 FLORIDA Panel Deadlocks on Dumping Tobacco Stock Reuters
12/17/96 MISSISSIPPI "Medicaid" Suit Delayed Three Months Tobcos win delay till June; more time for Congressional "deal". MSNBC
12/18/96 CANADA: Billboard Firm Stops Accepting Tobacco Ads on Moral Grounds . . . even though the sweet aroma of the tobacco industry green is as smooth as a Havana cigar, the aftertaste is as stale as a tray full o' butts. Quite simply as a moral issue, tobacco is far too addictive and harmful to promote just for the sake of profit, said .President Michael Chesney of Toronto's Murad(!) Communications. Ad Age
12/18/96 Ad Execs Support Tobacco Advertising Limits: Survey 80% approve restrictions; 68% think cig ads' goal is kids. AP. Here's the Press Release And hard on this report's heals, Philip Morris and an Ad Group Question its Significance AP. Meanwhile, the LA TImes has an article on the recent spate of Supreme Court First Amendment Rulings The court is using the 1st Amendment to protect the wealthy and powerful, he said, and seems unable to distinguish between laws that "censor speech and those that regulate concentrations of private power."
12/18/96 Washington Times vs. ASH on SIDS Report A classic confrontation on this incredibly sensitive issue. ASH
12/18/96 Lawyers Weekly USA Names Carter Trial Winner One of 8 Lawyers of the Year "Woody" Wilner won landmark case in Florida.
12/18/96 EU Refuses to Try to End Tobacco Subsidies European Commission "unprepared to put 20,000 tobacco-related workers out of jobs." Reuters. Here's the story from Fox News. Past articles: 12/17/96 EU Set to Adopt Tobacco Reforms; Farmers Burn Tobacco in Protest Reuters Thousands Protest as EU Prepares to Debate Tobacco Subsidies WSJ
12/18/96 Advertisements For Itself Leslie Savan on foreign markets, advertising, corporate sponsorship and how the industry meets threats by--advertising. Communist countries like the Marlboro Man at high noon. American ad agencies are often the first outposts of capitalism in Eastern Europe and Asia, opening their doors even before the legal structure of capitalism takes root. Village Voice
12/18/96 VIRGINIA: Democrat Wins in Special Election W. Roscoe Reynolds takes tobacco district. VA Senate Remains tied 20-20; both candidates had supported tobacco, but Reynolds had been attacked because likely Democratic gubernatorial candidate Don Beyers is pro-FDA regulation. Reuters
12/19/96 Florida at center stage in tobacco litigation 3 big ones set for 1997. Reuters
12/19/96 More Talk of Truce in Tobacco Wars WSJ. Free Reg. with MS Internet Explorer
12/19/96 MARYLAND: Glendenning's Sad Tobacco Tale Gov. Gets Personal: Lost 2 to Tobacco-Related Diseases. WP
12/19/96 Jury Awards $10 Million In Libel Case Against ABC Not really about tobacco, but a prime example of what was lost when ABC settled with PM last year. ABC last year apologized and settled a $10 billion suit by Philip Morris over a "Day One" program, saying it should not have charged the tobacco industry with "spiking" its cigarettes with added nicotine. What ABC actually said: We now agree that we should not have reported that Philip Morris adds significant amounts of nicotine from outside sources.
12/19/96 CANADA: Banning Ads for Tobacco Might Slash Culture Funds Cultural/arts groups rushing to tobacco's defense. Christina Science Monitor on the big investment arts and events groups have in tobacco. Christian Science Monitor
12/19/96 SEITA Sued: First in FRANCE Gauloises Brunes (browns) blamed for lung and tongue cancer, in a country where 60% of 18 year olds smoke. AP. And here's Reuters' story Finally, there's Seita's Press Release
12/19/96 Teen Drug, Tobacco Use Climbing 21% of 8th graders, 30% of 10th graders and 34% of 12th graders say they are smokers--Monitoring the Future study. DARE program called ineffective. Reuters
12/19/96 American Brands Restructuring--UK Gallaher Tobacco Unit to Shed Factories, 950 Jobs Takes $80M Charge, AMB streamlining Gallaher in preparation for spin-off. Reuters. Here's more on Gallaher's Factory Closings/Modernizing from The Financial Times.
12/19/96 PORTUGAL: Philip Morris Wins Bidding War for Tabaqueira PM-led consortium defeats Spain's Tabacalera and France's SEITA. Gets 65% of former state monopoly, though Tabacalera had high bid. Sector development plans a factor. Reuters
12/19/96 They're Back MoJo's Hellraiser Central totes up the score and looks up the prospects of Campaign 96's major donors--including "King Tobacco."
12/19/96 The Hidden Persuader: Vance Packard's Legacy The author of The Hidden Persuadersdied recently. Few have looked deeper into advertising's unique and suble power, even today [though Alan Brody's work follows closely]. David Futrelle writes that Packard may be more relevant than ever today. And Packard even (at times) has a sense of humor about it all: In the midst of denouncing the "psycho-seduction of children," he noted that while writing that chapter he'd overheard his "own eight-year-old daughter happily singing the cigarette jingle: 'Don't miss the fun of smoking!'" Salon
12/20/96 Lucky Strike Tobacco Institute to brief Congress/staff in Phoenix. Cold weather got you down? We've got just the trip. Fun, sun, splendor and a schedule that has just the right mix of hard work and play. It's the Tobacco Institute's annual briefing for Congress and staff. at the Keating-built Phoenician in Scottsdale, AZ Feb. 16-17. Al Kamen runs down the hectic schedule of events for you. Washington Post
12/20/96 MISSISSIPPI Requests PM's Prometheus Database--Dossier on Fed & Local Politicians Unused since 1992, Philip Morris asks court to declare it confidential. LA Times (Free Reg)
12/20/96 Anti-smoking Ads "Inoculate" Teens from Glamorous Film Images: Study 30-second ad negates impact of Reality Bites LA Times (Free Reg)
12/20/96 Baldness, Gray Hair from Smoking? 606-man British study. MSNBC
12/21/96 Developing a "Methadone-like" Cigarette for Safer Smoking Take out the "soot" while leaving the nicotine, says American Society for Addiction Medicine researcher US News
12/22/96 The $10 Billion Debate Secret negotiating sessions between public health leaders and tobacco industry executives are not an appropriate place for public health policy decisions to be made. Op Ed in the Washington Post
12/22/96 Philip Morris Union Leader Booted Out "Peaople Slate" voted in. Richmond TImes-Dispatch
12/22/96 HONG KONG, United States sign extradition pact Ex-BAT exec Jerry Lui saved by the pact; extradited from Boston to Hong Kong, he would have faced death in China on bribery charges.
12/22/96 NIH announces clinical trial of lung volume reduction surgery for emphysema 2,600 patients to be invited from 18 medical centers. NYC's Columbia Presbyterian and Long Island Jewish to participate. Reuters
12/22/96 CALIFORNIA: Health Officials Say They Were Pressured To "Falsify Information" so Wilson Administration Could Claim Prop. 99 Program Wasn't Working I will not ever falsify information or communicate results I cannot stand by . . . I hope that something can be done very soon to stop this falsification of results, wrote a top researcher in one of several memos unearthed by Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights. SF Examiner breaks the story. Here's the AP story
12/23/96 European Smokers Feel Few Restrictions AP
12/23/96 "Memoirs" of a Philip Morris Employee Floyd H. Nuttall, the Marlboro Man in the middle . . . feels compelled to express his conviction that his old employer took a wrong turn in the early 1960s when, he says, it started mixing tobacco stems and scraps into cigarettes as a cost-cutting measure. Richmond Times-Dispatch on the new book by an expert tobacco blender from the 30s to the 70s, who considers reconstituted tobacco the primary source of cigarettes' health effects (and increasingly bad taste): Memoirs in a Country Churchyard -- A Tobaccoman's Plea: Clean Up Tobacco Row ($24.95, Brunswick Publishing, 800-336-7154.). You can also read a short review (and order the book) at amazon.com
12/23/96 25-year 'war on cancer' shows signs of victory Lung cancer dropping in men, rising in women. Reuters
12/24/96 AUSTRALIA Allows Tobacco Advertising for 1997 Formula One Grand Prix AMA "disappointed" in exemption. AAP
12/24/96 A brief discussion of why smokers tend not to have Parkinson's. "It's not nicotine." Discovery Magazine Jan. 1996
12/24/96 Welcome to the swank, cool and cultured age of good health Shalala fights back against the appropriation of "fun" by "Mrs. Scotch and Mr. Cigar . . . the nice couple next door." A funny piece from the.Washington Post
12/24/96 BAT Freed from Missouri Suit Reuters
12/24/96 RICO Charges Spreading to Other States Florida court approval fires up other AGs bringing "Medicaid" suits. National Law Journal
12/24/96 1997 Looks to be Critical for Tobacco Bob Kur, MSNBC
12/25/96 The Stocks that are Tough to Stub Out AMA employees' own 401K fund has tobacco in its portfolio. Washington Post
12/25/96 CALIFORNIA: Former state health spokeswoman denies tobacco fund misconduct Betsy Hite denies trying to pressure scientists to falsify data. Sacramento Bee
12/26/96 Inside Philip Morris Executives . . . you have to be able to look in the mirror in the morning, put your lipstick on and say `I'm okay, I love what I do and it's okay. The tight camaraderie among senior management at PM. Talking shop with Nancy Brennan Lund, Victor Han, Craig Johnson, Steven Parrish, Ellen Merlo. It's almost as if they're brainwashed. They are isolated from society in general and Philip Morris becomes their universe.A fine piece from the Washington Post--with a hilarious cap.
12/26/96 CZECH REPUBLIC: Pafko's Christmas Gift to Havel: an Unusable Ashtray Lung Cancer surgeon gives what he hopes is a different kind of "inspiration" AP
12/26/96 FRANCE: Seita Hit with Second Suit Washington Post. Here's AP's story
12/26/96 CONNECTICUT: Tobacco Lawsuit Can Proceed Federal Judge Throws Out Industry Challenge, Damaging Preempitve Lawsuit Strategy. Washington Post. The linchpin of this powerful and profound precedent is the court's conclusion that an important state interest is at stake . . . This court is the first to reach that conclusion, which is absolutely critical to litigation around the country, said AG Blumenthal. Violations of the state's unfair trade practices and antitrust laws deemed "vital" to state's interest. Here's WP's 12/27/96 followup article
12/26/96 First Amendment Lawyers Address FDA's Tobacco Rules Article finds many siding with tobacco industry. Reuters.
12/26/96 CALIFORNIA: Smoking in Bars Ok for '97 Assembly Bill 3037 grants one-year reprieve from total ban. "Tavern Owners for Fairness" hails passage. Reuters
12/26/96 Quitting Smoking for the New Year? 10 Tips from SmithKline Beecham (Nicorette, NicoDerm) PR Presswire12/27/96 10 Good Reasons to Quit Smoking Now Sturdy roundup of 10 1996 studies on a variety of health effects. Your Health Daily
12/26/96 CALIFORNIA: SF Health Dept. Launches Ad Assault on Cigar CrazeCigars: They look like what they smell like. Ouch! SF Chron. Here's the Reuters story Here's a Letter to the editor from the ACS
12/27/96 KOREA: Virginia Slims the Hot Macho Smoke Idiosyncrasies & ironies of foreign marketing. WSJ (Free Reg with MS I.E.)
12/27/96 Kessler Sees No Deal Ahead for Tobcos Barron's (Free Reg)
12/27/96 As more light up cigars, smokers play down risks Lexington Herald-Leader/AP
12/27/96 FRANCE: In-depth Look at the Two Unprecedented Smokers' Lawsuits Washington Post
12/29/96 Don't Even Think About Smoking Here Companies with hiring policies against smokers, despite smokers' rights laws. NY Times LINK OUT OF DATE. And NY Times' Search Engine stinks. I'll replace the link when I find it.
12/29/96 UK Newspapers Recommend Cigarette Stocks POSTNet (expires in 2 days)Bloomberg
12/30/96 EUROPE Mostly Ignores Smoking Rules AP
12/30/96 Forbidden Fruit Cuban cigars in US. Reuters
12/30/96 Suits or Truce in '97? Reuters overview.
12/30/96 Putting Your Money Where Your Morals Are Great article on the boom in social investing, complete with latest figures of the Domini Social Index, a short primer, a booklist, websites and fund groups. SF Chron
12/30/96 OK to aim lower, push for reducing, not eliminating, health risks?. Philadelphia Inquirer
12/31/96 Marketing the Pipe In a bid to cash in on the cigar craze, pipe makers are engaged in a seemingly quixotic bid to make the pipe, longtime geek of the tobacco world, the next cool smoke Suein Hwang, WSJ. (Free Reg. with MS I.E.--last day)
12/31/96 CZECH REPUBLIC: No Smoking in Vaclav Havel's Office Efforts to control lung cancer victim's smoking continue, as staff chooses nonsmoking office. POSTNet (expires in 2 days)AP. 01/02/97 Havel Speaks of Deep Feeling for World Hospital ordeal and loss of wife Olga to lung cancer earlier this year seen as "great challenges for a new and far deeper consideration of the world in which we live." Reuters
12/31/96 IOWA: AG Wants to Allow Local Communities to Enact Own Tobacco Restrictions POSTNet (expires in 2 days)AP
12/31/96 CHINA Bans All Tobacco Advertising. POSTNet (expires in 2 days)Bloomberg POSTNet
'Tis the Season:
- 12/30/96UK: #1 New Year's Resolution among Teens--Give up Smoking Times of London
- 12/19/96 Britain battles bootleggers for Christmas "Booze Cruises" flood England with bootleg liquor and cigarettes from the continent. Reuters
- 12/19/96 Anti-Tobacco Perfume Inevitably, you exit with clothes and hair stinking of tobacco. Don't you just hate it when that happens? . . . Angel hair spray purportedly lifts and neutralizes food, smoke or pollution odors in hair and replaces them with Angel's distinctive fragrance, a blend of vanilla, cinnamon, chocolate and other non-floral essences. . . . exclusively at Nordstrom. LA Times
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