Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...touts a pair of reinforced rompers by Healthtex, a leading purveyor of juvenile apparel. But the folks who dreamed up the campaign work neither on Madison Avenue nor in the giant agencies of Los Angeles or Chicago. Instead they labor in, of all places, Richmond, Va. Situated among tobacco warehouses and antiques stores, the Martin Agency was once known for regional work, such as its "Virginia is for lovers" campaign. But recently Martin snagged a $55 million account for Saab cars away from a New York City agency; Coca-Cola is another client. Billings are up 25%, to $355 million...
Sources familiar with the defense say the exclusion of Howe was the worst blow. In 1994, while living in Elohim City, Okla., a redoubt of white supremacists, Howe became an informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. She made about 70 reports to her ATF contacts, which Howe's lawyer turned over to the defense. Sources say the reports discuss five men who traveled frequently to Oklahoma City to inspect the Murrah building. In an internal ATF memo written in April 1995 and obtained by Time, Howe told her supervisors that Elohim City leaders talked to her about...
...www.atf.treas.gov/ No frills, no nonsense, no pretty guided tour, and just-the-facts-ma'am icons from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms...
Supporters of the proposal argued that states already lose so much money on the health costs for people made ill by cigarette smoking that a number of attorneys general are suing the tobacco companies to recover billions of dollars. If a new tax caused fewer people to become ill from smoking, states would presumably lose less money on such health costs...
...those cases come to trial, tobacco-industry lawyers could argue that although it might sound a bit callous to say so out loud, some of the 400,000 or so Americans who die before their time because of smoking would otherwise be a drain on the Medicare and Medicaid and welfare systems for the years they would have lived if smoking hadn't rendered them safely deceased...