Brandt also attempts to trace the history of the cigarette to our identity as a culture, but here, as in so many places, he trips over a welter of nouns and compound phrases: "Resisting the blandishments of the companies and the addictiveness of nicotine is one cultural test of our discipline, independence, and individualism." Sentences like this made the book a real slog to get through
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His only hope is his faithful secretary (a vampish Ella Raines).who is determined to save him, along with a cop called Gomez (Burgess) who adds psychological insight into the criminal mind
[167] "Enforcement Activities," in Proceedings of the 45 th Annual Meeting of the National Tobacco Tax Association (Chicago: Federation of Tax Administrators, 1971), 28
[3] [4] Its name (along with that of the Winston brand) derives from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the city where RJR was founded and headquartered