However, I found him perfectly ready to say at some length that the tobacco industry had come in for much hard and unfair treatment at the hands of the federal government and of the medical people associated with the Surgeon Generals report
Indeed, since the early days of tobacco harvesting and curing, people packed pipes with tobacco, as captured in iconic images of farmers with corncob pipes, sea captains clenching pipes, and aristocrats enjoying a pipe with an after-dinner drink
And in the end, Lavery said, that fact that blu's sales are very small compared with Reynolds' overall business "makes it quite possible that Imperial was more interested in owning blu than Reynolds was." The news agency Reuters, citing a source familiar with the situation, that Imperial Tobacco insisted that blu be among the assets it was buying in the deal
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