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Between the Federal Trade Commisssion and their own industry’s self-imposed Cigarette Advertising Code, cigarette salesmen have just about been reduced to saying that a smoke is only a smoke. Among ...

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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. For the better part of the past century, the case against nicotine was simple: Smoking a cigarette might feel ...