Cobb [1876-1944] was a popular writer for The Saturday Evening Post , the nations highest paid newspaper reporter at The New York World , and the author of over 60 books and 300 short stories.) WHEN the Pure Food Law went into effect [in 1906] the makers of Sweet Caporal Cigarettes did not have to change either their methods of manufacture or the contents of their packages, nor yet their ways of marketing their waresIts proprietors had a regard for factory cleanliness, for honest labelling, for purity of goods, for truthful advertising and sanitary handling long before a Federal statute requiring these things was enacted
The EU has already classified cigarette filters as hazardous waste. But more is needed just to put out more ashtrays
Additionally, smoking can encourage a recurrence of tuberculosis and impair the bodys response to TB treatment
Political button , Martin Luther King, celluloid, sepia photograph, pinback, integral stand and hanger, 1968, 9 inches, $465