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Article: The Grand Ole Opry and big tobacco: radio scripts from the files of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, 1948 to 1959.(Not Forgotten)
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- Southern Cultures
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- June 22, 2006
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Historians rely on documents from the past that have been preserved in archives, museums, libraries, sometimes basements and attics. What gets saved and what gets tossed out is often a matter of luck or circumstance. One of the more interesting cases is the fate of the tobacco industry's internal documents. Long considered the most secretive of American industries, cigarette manufacturers zealously guarded access to their company files. Cigarette manufacturers would go so far as to ship overseas the results of their own internal research linking cigarettes with disease or transfer material to their legal counsel so that incriminating documents could be shielded from the ...
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Article: CIGARETTE MANUFACTURERS STILL DEPEND ON IMPORTED ...
Indonesian Commercial Newsletter;
November 7, 1994 ;
653 words
...Indonesian cigarette manufacturers still use imported tobacco in large quantities. This ... volume of tobacco imports has increased with demand by cigarette manufacturers. This is reflected by the fact that the production of ...
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