Debi Austin appeared in a memorable anti-tobacco ad in 1997 and became instantly recognizable in public. In the "Voicebox" ad she says, "They say nicotine isn't addictive," and then puffs on a cigarette through the hole in her throat. She died Feb. 22 at age 62 after a long battle with emphysema, cancer and the tobacco industry.
Debi Austin appeared in a memorable anti-tobacco ad in 1997 and became instantly recognizable in public. In the "Voicebox" ad she says, "They say nicotine isn't addictive," and then puffs on a cigarette through the hole in her throat. She died Feb. 22 at age 62 after a long battle with emphysema, cancer and the tobacco industry.
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A television commercial opposing Proposition 29 features La Donna Porter, a physician who has long been a spokeswoman for tobacco industry causes. Porter said she is not being paid to oppose the proposition to raise tobacco taxes.
A television commercial opposing Proposition 29 features La Donna Porter, a physician who has long been a spokeswoman for tobacco industry causes. Porter said she is not being paid to oppose the proposition to raise tobacco taxes.
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Tobacco Industry Wikipedia Information
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Tea Party’s ties to tobacco?
February 10, 2013
“Rather than being a purely grassroots movement that arose spontaneously in 2009, the Tea Party developed in part as a result of tobacco industry efforts to...
Big Tobacco Buys Big Political Influence
October 16, 2012
Oct. 16, 2012 - The tobacco industry has always been a major player in congressional campaigns, but a new online map (ash.org/map) shows just how pervasive...
Business leaders push preschool funding
May 12, 2013
| indystar.com
That will be fiercely fought by the tobacco industry. In addition, Republicans have raised questions about whether the money would be well spent, pointing to Head Start, a...
American oligopolies are the new monopolies
April 16, 2013
| Boing Boing
Back in the mid-century, the Justice Department went after oligopolistic cartels in the tobacco industry and Hollywood with the same vigor it chased Standard Oil, the...
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Tobacco Industry on twitter
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