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[Florida] Margarita Dosal, tobacco company president, dies - Obituaries
Margarita Chavez Dosal, the flamboyantly fancy, gleefully generous matriarch of a family that reestablished its Cuban tobacco company in Opa-locka after fleeing the Castro regime, died Monday night at her Miami Shores home of complications from diabetes.
Apr 19, 2013
Miami (FL) Herald
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Apr 19, 2013 14:29
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[New York] Artist dies in E. Village fire
died in a fiery apartment blaze sparked by smoking in bed, a police source said yesterday. Mary Lincoln Bonnell, 84, had showcased her prodigious work in SoHo galleries.
Apr 18, 2013
New York Post
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Apr 18, 2013 20:49
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[California] Woman who appeared in Calif anti-tobacco ad dies
Debi Austin died Friday at Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, according to family spokeswoman Whitney Standring-Trueblood. She was 62.
Feb 27, 2013
AP - Associated Press
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Feb 27, 2013 19:41
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Frank R. Lautenberg, 5-Term Senator From New Jersey, Dies at 89
In 1989, he led a successful fight to ban smoking on all commercial airline flights. Mr. Lautenberg, once a two-pack-a-day smoker, told the Senate: “With this legislation, nonsmokers, including children and infants, will be free from secondhand smoke. Wor
Jun 3, 2013
New York Times
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Jun 3, 2013 13:20
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The Haunting Face Of The Anti-Smoking Movement Has Died
"And they say nicotine isn't addictive," Austin famously said in a 1996 ad for the California Department of Health Services (CDPH) as she pulled a cigarette up to the black nothingness in her neck to take a satisfying, toxic drag. "How can they say that?
Feb 28, 2013
Business Insider
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Feb 28, 2013 16:17
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[California] Iconic Anti-Tobacco Advocate, Debi Austin, Loses Battle to Cancer
California’s most well-known anti-tobacco advocate, Debi Austin, passed away at the age of 62 after a long and courageous battle against cancer. First appearing in the 1996 California television ad “Voicebox,” her story illustrated the dangers of smoking
Feb 26, 2013
California Department of Public Health
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Feb 27, 2013 11:53
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Jack Klugman, Stage and Screen Actor, Is Dead at 90
At one time a heavy smoker, Mr. Klugman had survived throat cancer, which was diagnosed in 1974. After a vocal cord was removed in 1989, his voice was reduced to a gravelly whisper.
Dec 25, 2012
New York Times
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Dec 26, 2012 06:05
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[Virginia] A true tobacco man
South Boston native Roger Jackson Eggleston, a true tobacco man, was memorialized at the Kenbridge Tobacco Museum this summer following his untimely death on March 17 of this year. He was 55. His mother, Norma Murphy Eggleston, who lives in South Boston
Sep 19, 2012
South Boston (VA) Gazette-Virginian
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Sep 19, 2012 16:43
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New Jersey Sen. Lautenberg dead at age 89, last remaining World War II veteran in Senate
next time a flight attendant reminds you there’s no smoking on the plane or you witness a teenager getting carded at a liquor store, think of Frank ... when tobacco-state lawmakers asked what would become of tobacco farmers, Lautenberg scoffed, “Grow soy
Jun 3, 2013
AP - Associated Press
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Jun 3, 2013 11:54
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TC Tso, USDA tobacco scientist
T.C. Tso, 95, a senior research scientist and tobacco expert with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, died April 9 of heart disease at his home in Silver Spring. ... After retiring from the Department of Agriculture in 1984, Dr. Tso worked as an indepen
Apr 25, 2013
The Washington Post
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Apr 26, 2013 06:09