Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing," a man from Burgaw County, North Carolina, is telling me. "It weren't like what people think." Burgaw is blue mold and cinch weed country and the guy's name is Slade. Just Slade. "That's enough anyway," says Slade. He's about forty and nowadays he grows tobacco for a living...
...forties. He's one of those incredibly wiry men and looks like a coal miner, only there's no coal mining in Knoxville, so he's probably a farmer. He's got cinch weed killer in the back of the truck. He's wearing a Chevy hat and chewing tobacco. There's nothing worse in the world than farming sometimes. His wife is all wrapped up in a windbreaker; a modified beehive hairdo. When they come in they seem embarrassed by the pretty, heavily made-up Ford girls, with their insincere cooing over all 124 cubic inches...
...Miller High-Life franchise and the North Carolina legislature started it all. Alan Schafer, who owned the South Carolina rights to Miller, knew a lot of people would be thirsty by the time they had come clear across North Carolina, then dry as two-year-old tobacco. "He wanted to get into the retail beer business, and this (five feet, if that, south of the state line) seemed an advantageous location," Holliday says. "He was businessman enough to adopt the name," and later invented Pedro, the Mexican figure that serves as mascot, Holliday adds. "He never intended...
Cigarette smoking is a top-ranking coronary culprit. It speeds up the heart rate, raises blood pressure and constricts blood vessels. Smokers in the U.S. are twice as likely as non-smokers to have heart attacks. And while tobacco users are most often warned about lung cancer, statistics show that their chances of developing fatal heart disease are three times as great. The American Heart Association estimates that more than 120,000 deaths from heart disease could be avoided each year in the U.S. if people gave up cigarettes...
...Said HHS Chief of Staff David Newhall III: "I did not have sufficient confidence that the majority of smokers would be discouraged." The announcement certainly irritated the American Lung Association, which charged that the ads had gone up in smoke because the Government had bowed to pressure from the tobacco industry. The association's directors, who met with the model last week, plan to puff Brooke's message in an independent campaign. That is fine with her. Brooke does not fret at being Calvinized as a teen sex symbol, but, says she: "I don't want...