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[Canada] David Stewart's first presidential report.

miscellaneous assortment of documents have been put on the trial record. Many of them are worth a second look. ... Among those deposited earlier this month were short corporate histories ... a colourful history of Macdonald Tobacco written by one of its
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
added Apr 20, 2013 12:21
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PHOTO: North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Commemorates Tobacco Workers on April 20

African American women were the primary leaf workers in the Winston-Salem tobacco industry, and formed the United Tobacco Workers Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agricultural and Allied Works of America-Congress on Industrial Organizations (FTACIO). ... La
Beach Carolina Magazine
added Apr 17, 2013 13:30
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[Canada] Denis Coté's wonderful archive of tobacco promotions

plaintiff's valuable database of exhibits -- a selection of photographs taken by Denis Coté, the former editor of Info-Tabac. ... Looking at these photos today is a reminder of how Montreal's festival season was a veritable billboard for smoking!
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
added Apr 17, 2013 07:33
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[Australia] Quad bikes: tobacco on four wheels

Comparisons of the quad [bike] and tobacco industry tactics are compelling. As identified, the combination of rigid policy stances requiring irrefutable evidence of risk, social attitudes and interference by vested interests often result in policy makers
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
added Apr 17, 2013 07:30
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[Canada, New York] Treaty sets out border trade rights

“The Jay Treaty basically recognizes the inherent right aboriginal peoples have to live in their own territory. So while it may seem like the Mohawks are smuggling, they’re just taking goods from one end of their territory to the other.” In a sense, this
Montreal Gazette (ca)
added Apr 17, 2013 07:12
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[Virginia] Star Scientific’s next controversy? Dietary aids

Now, having recently exited the tobacco business to focus instead on its relatively new venture into dietary supplements, Star Scientific has again become a magnet for controversy and is headed back to court, this time facing investors who argue the comp
Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch
added Apr 16, 2013 14:34
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[Canada] Letter: SHATENSTEIN: Cigarette smuggling and the tobacco industry

The salient point missing from Christopher Curtis’s stories on the illicit Mohawk cigarette trade is the culpability of the tobacco industry. As recently as 2010, Canadian giant JTI-Macdonald and Northern Brands International, a subsidiary of U.S. major
Montreal Gazette (ca)
added Apr 15, 2013 15:22
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[Ohio] Tobacco Museum needs help

"The Ohio Tobacco Museum's goal is not to promote smoking or to promote chewing tobacco," said board secretary Michelle Arnold. "It's to promote the history of tobacco and the history of the residents of the Ripley, Aberdeen, Higginsport and Georgetown a
Georgetown (OH) News Democrat
added Apr 15, 2013 07:57
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[South Carolina] Memories of King Tobacco

Eldred Prince and Benton Henry’s book “The Great Harvest: Remembering Tobacco in the Pee Dee” tells the story of the once golden crop and the people that grew it.
WBTW Channel 13
added Apr 14, 2013 12:29
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[California] New Kids On The Block Won Over Prison Inmates With Smuggled Cigarettes

The band visited the prison during the peak of their boy bandpopularity in the late ’80s/early ’90s. ... “We smuggled cigarettes in on one of them and threw them out into the crowd,” continued McIntyre. “That’s how we won that crowd over. Nowadays we wo
KLLC-FM Alice@97.3 (San Francisco, CA)
added Apr 12, 2013 04:47
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