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Article: Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Victory of Philip Morris. (book reviews)
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- Insight on the News
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- May 20, 1996
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One would have to have a heart of stone," Oscar Wilde said, "to read Dickens' account of the death of Little Nell without bursting out laughing." The story of tobacco's evolution into a $50 billion-a-year industry, driven largely by inane advertising pitches that would insult the intelligence of an aardvark, should be even funnier than the death of Little Nell.
How a fourth of the human race became addicted to a noxious weed devoid of narcotic or hallucinogenic properties, amid almost universal awareness of its lethal properties, is a saga of mass cognitive dissonance that cries out for the macabre wit of a Wilde, Dorothy Parker or H.L. Mencken - someone with a sense ...
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Article: CIGARETTE WAR WILL BACKFIRE.(Editorial)(Column)
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...Byline: Jim Waters Instead of working toward a reasonable compromise, Kentucky's health police have started a war on smokers with the force of government being the preferred weapon of choice. Frankfort increased the cigarette tax by nearly 1,000 percent and two cities, Lexington and Georgetown,
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