Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...style dollar diplomat, who sported spinach and used tobacco as a diet, is in the museum; the 1927 ambassador goes in for cigarets, safety razors, safety first, and social eminence, and is visable to the naked eyes of only those wandering Americans bearing mandates from Republican magnates. For all others?the air, the landscape, the department of the exterior...
...relieve this serious situation, to get U. S. smoke to U. S. smokers in France, the Government of Premier Raymond Poincare issued, last week, a wise decree. Hereafter, during the U. S. tourist season, special credits will be extended to small dealers by the State Tobacco Monopoly, thus enabling them to stock...
...proselytizing fervor into a war for a cause, the validity of the means becomes obscured in the worth of the end. The liberties taken by anti-German historians in the war are well known, and the dubious statement is current that sixty per cent of the babies born of tobacco smoking mothers die in two years. At least, no doubt, a man drinking aldehyde will replace the policeman in the "You Can't Win" subway signs; the renegade will do his drinking down alleys in order to avoid the pointing fingers of abused wives and George Washingtons; and the public...
Promoting a new brand of cigarets in the U. S. is vastly difficult. Smoking habits must be broken, tastes changed. Established brands hold their customers fast-R. J. Reynolds' "Camels," Liggett & Meyers' "Fatimas" and "Chesterfields," American Tobacco's "Lucky Strikes" and "Mela-chrinos" and Philip Morris' "Marl-boroughs." Each sells 75 million to more than 100 million a day. To join this phalanx, not especially to disrupt it, Continental Tobacco recently dressed its new cigaret "Barking Dog" with the strong armor of advertising. So far "Barking Dogs" success is indeterminable. More recently United Cigar Stores...
Both books report the bad effect of immoderate smoking. Both belittle attempts to suppress moderate smoking. Both are source books, in their even arrangements of facts, for antagonists and protagonists of tobacco...