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Bulletin: Cigarettes Remain Dangerous to Your Health
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyThe drug pusher companies known as Big Tobacco, those anachronistic but determined manufacturers of nicotine delivery systems, have been smoked out for marketing their deathly products in a manner misleading to their addicted buyers. Even before the 1964 surgeon general's report warned consumers that cigarettes may be harmful to our health, advertisers were assuring doubtful smokers their tar-, nicotine-, flavoring- and preservative-laced packs of rolled-up tobacco were smoked by more doctors than any other brand. Effective on Tuesday, the Food and Drug Administration, now regulating ...
$18-A-Pack Cigarettes? Bring 'Em On
By Sara Nommensen - Politics DailyKings of Leon's set at Chicago's Lollapalooza music festival earlier this month was stunning, but standing in the audience, I was most struck by the guy periodically scampering across the stage whose job seemed to be "cigarette man." Every few minutes cigarette man would appear mid-song, make his way to drummer Nathan Followill with a cigarette in his hand, and carefully bring it to the lips of the musician long enough for a good drag and smoky exhale. Those who weren't lucky enough to be standing as close to the stage as I was were able to watch in colorful detail as Big Tobacco ...
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