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DETROIT--College women are more likely than college men to smoke cigarettes, suggesting that the tobacco industry is successfully linking female smoking with an image of glamour and success, according to a federal study released yesterday...
...appears the tobacco industry's expensive and longterm effort to associate smoking with liberation and success among women has paid off, at least for the industry," Johnston said. "The payoff for those young women who bought the message is quite another matter...
...have dreamed of spending up to $30 million for a party or making $10 million by auctioning off broadcasting rights to ABC television. He would be puzzled by the multifarious products with the Statue of Liberty imprint: Liberty charcoal briquettes, Liberty beach towels, Liberty dry-roasted peanuts, Liberty tobacco. Moreover, Adams probably could not have conceived how practically everyone in a country of 240 million might be very nearly sated with a celebration that is yet to occur...
...Tobacco was under attack once again last week. The Federal Trade Commission formally charged the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (now a subsidiary of RJR Nabisco Inc.) with illegally misleading the public in purporting to summarize the results of a ten-year, $115 million U.S. Government-funded research study on the relationship between smoking and heart disease, among other things. Reynolds described the project, known as the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial, in an advertisement that ran in various publications from February through June 1985. The company's conclusion: "The controversy over smoking and health remains an open...
While the others were pulling out, in fact, the owner fished a fresh chaw of Red Man from his pocket, got in the big new Chrysler with the tobacco juice cup affixed to the dash, and drove over to Mount Olivet Cemetery. Down at the end of a drive lined with red-tipped photinias, in a section called Showmen's Rest, he pointed out his brother's grave, his father's grave and the spot where he and his wife Isla Marie would spend eternity. All around were tombstones in the shape of tents, or wagon wheels, or ticket booths...