Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides offending women, the ad alarmed health groups because it seemed to give underage readers tips on how to redeem a coupon for free cigarettes. The ad was lambasted last week before the House subcommittee on transportation and hazardous materials, which is considering a tobacco-ad ban. James Johnston, the new chairman of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, has apologized for the ad. Said he: "It will never run again...
...element back East, uncomfortable in his father's shadow once again. Of the five Bush children, George, the eldest, had always been the most drawn to Dad's patterns of endeavor. What rebellion he waged was stylistic. He became the real Texan in the family -- chewing tobacco, using barnyard humor, settling in the state's western corner -- the one harboring what his aunt Nancy Ellis calls a "slightly outrageous streak...
...founded in 1902 by North Carolina tobacco mogul James Duke, the company, formerly known as British American Tobacco, has diversified in much the same pattern as have R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris. As growth in cigarette sales softened, B.A.T branched into retailing during the 1970s, taking over such chains as Saks Fifth Avenue and Marshall Field in the U.S. and Jewellers Guild shops in Britain. The company capped a move into finance last December with the $5 billion takeover of Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance...
Goldsmith maintains that B.A.T shareholders would be better off if the company were to refocus on the high-profit tobacco business, which is experiencing new growth in Asia and other overseas markets. A veteran conglomerate-buster who served as the model for the swashbuckling Sir Larry Wildman in the 1987 film Wall Street, the 6-ft. 4-in. Goldsmith may have made his point all too well. Now that he has put B.A.T on the block, other raiders may try to top his offer. Or B.A.T may attempt to boost its stock price beyond his reach by launching a restructuring...
Licence's only innovation comes in the closing credits. To atone for Bond's use of cigarettes, the producers print the Surgeon General's caveat on the evils of tobacco. Another warning would have been welcome: CAUTION: EXPOSURE TO HEROIDS MAY CAUSE SUMMER-MOVIE BURNOUT...