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[New York] William Thourlby, the Marlboro Man, Spends His Time Alone
IN the 1950s William Thourlby squinted at America from billboards and invited smokers to Marlboro Country.
Aug 5, 2012
New York Times
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Aug 5, 2012 20:30
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The Book Big Tobacco Doesn't Want You to Read
With "Golden Holocaust," historian Robert Proctor deconstructs an industry that still kills more than 400,000 Americans a year.
May 15, 2012
Mother Jones Magazine
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May 15, 2012 10:44
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Timeline Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act
June 2009 President Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act into law July 2009 Established collection of user fees from industry
Jan 30, 2013
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
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Jan 30, 2013 01:20
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[Russia] STAN: Nine ways Mitt is morally bankrupt
If true morality is evidenced by how one treats his fellow man, Romney’s reputation should be under water
Oct 10, 2012
Salon Magazine
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Nov 5, 2012 12:07
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Who Knew What and When?
Pisgah Forest in North Carolina's transylvania County may seem like an odd place for human health fortunes to have pivoted, but there's something to be said for it. Here in the fall of 1953 an experiment was conducted that would change how tobacco compani
Sep 7, 2012
National Public Radio (NPR)
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Sep 13, 2012 15:09
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[Canada] Smoking: Will cigarettes ever be safe?
“How do you evaluate if any of this is going to be of useful effect?” asks Proctor. “That’s the story of a lot of our research effort for the last five or six years. It’s one of the most challenging things, figuring out if what you’ve done to the product
Sep 2, 2012
Vancouver (BC) Province
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Sep 3, 2012 10:13
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[Illinois] Big Tobacco wins fire marshals as allies in flame retardant push
Cigarette-makers had man on the inside of key fire-safety group
May 8, 2012
Chicago Tribune
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May 8, 2012 06:11
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Camel (cigarette)
Camel is a brand of cigarettes that was introduced by American company R.J. Reynolds Tobacco in the summer of 1913. Most current Camel cigarettes contain a blend of Turkish tobacco and Virginia tobacco. Early in 2008 the blend was changed as was the pack
Apr 22, 2013
Wikipedia
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Apr 27, 2013 11:57