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[Florida] How they roll: Ybor's cigar industry may have faded, but its storefront biz thrives
Her shop, which like many cigar joints doubles as an espresso bar, is decorated with multiple photos — some of sprawling cigar factories in Cuba, some of Matos with her fans, a few celebrities among them. Passersby in search of the next watering hole may
Apr 14, 2016
Creative Loafing
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Apr 14, 2016 21:47
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Who Owns 'We Shall Overcome'? All Of Us, A Lawsuit Claims
In the 1940s, African-American tobacco workers sang a version of the song on the picket lines in South Carolina. They introduced the song at the Highlander Folk Center in Tennessee, a meeting place for black and white labor activists. Highlander's music d
Apr 13, 2016
National Public Radio (NPR)
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Apr 14, 2016 14:58
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[South Carolina] Lawyers who won Happy Birthday copyright case sue over “We Shall Overcome”
Striking tobacco workers sang the song in the 1940s during a strike in South Carolina. Peoples' Songs Inc., a company created by legendary folk singer Pete Seeger, published a songbook in 1948 that included the song. "This simple and moving hymn tune be
Apr 13, 2016
Ars Technica (blog)
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Apr 13, 2016 22:41
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[New York] Nordic Food Court Rises at Grand Central, With an Order to Leave No Trace
The men’s smoking lounge as it appeared about a century ago. The designers of Agern transformed the space into a Scandinavian modern interior, but preserved one of the doorways
Apr 6, 2016
New York Times
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Apr 6, 2016 14:37
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[Caribbean, Florida] Cuba As Depicted in 19th Century Cigar Box Art
Cuba’s long war of independence forced Spanish cigar manufacturer Vicente Martinez Ybor to move his Principe de Gales (Prince of Wales) operations from the cigar manufacturing center of Havana, Cuba to Key West, Florida.
Apr 5, 2016
Cuba Journal
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Apr 5, 2016 15:38
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COLLIN: Why should Hollywood quit smoking?
how best to put it? – cool. On screen, smoking adds movement to stillness, and pricks the dark with momentary flares of warmth and light. It’s a catalyst for intimacy, and particularly in the film noir era, there was often no fire without it.
Apr 1, 2016
Electronic Telegraph (uk)
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Apr 1, 2016 17:19
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[Asia] Countries across the world have begun pasting graphic images on their cigarettes – why China isn’t likely to follow suit
China has no plans to require such warnings on its cigarette packages. Duan said photos of smokers' rotten lungs...are not "in line with" traditional Chinese cultural values. He also stressed that China has strictly followed the WHO's Framework Conventio
Mar 22, 2016
Global Times (cn)
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Mar 23, 2016 11:49
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[Tennessee] Tobacco Has Changed, And So Have Our Communities
Greeneville was part of the Southern Railway Empire. The town boasted both commercial and industrial growth throughout the early 1900s, primarily due to the influence of the tobacco. In addition, Andrew Johnson, the17th president of the United States, was
Mar 19, 2016
Greeneville (TN) Sun
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Mar 21, 2016 01:53
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[Tennessee] Burley Tobacco Provided A Sustaining Legacy To Greene County
Tobacco is considered to be the most revered cash crop in the United States' history. As early as 1612, colonists of the New World, more specifically, John Rolfe, grew the first commercial crop of tobacco on small Jamestown Island in Eastern Virginia. Tob
Mar 18, 2016
Greeneville (TN) Sun
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Mar 21, 2016 01:55
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[New York] COTTER: Making Museums Moral Again
In 1983, the Whitney Museum of American Art opened a Midtown branch that was paid for, and named for, the Philip Morris tobacco company, which for decades had steadfastly denied that smoking causes lung cancer. The Whitney escaped sustained censure for it
Mar 17, 2016
New York Times
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Mar 17, 2016 12:43