Of all the pesticides used in tobacco production, herbicides make up the smallest percentage, approximately 10.4% [18]
He had helped make the sales of these brands leap wildly with commercials containing such claims as The nicotine and tars trapped by the exclusive Viceroy filter cannot reach your nose, throat, or lungs. (He later observed in connection with the medical studies on smoking and health that put the subject on the front pages in 1954, We had already prempted the health kick.) Now Reeves, after having retired from the agency business and done some dealing in real estate down in Jamaica, had returned to Madison Avenue, set himself up in a suite of fifteen offices on the thirty-fifth floor of the Newsweek Building, and was consuming with half a dozen large corporate clientsall big jungle cats, too, he saidon whatever public-relations or managerial problems afflicted them
Vanilla extract (the real stuff, not imitation) contains alcohol that can temporarily numb pain
Believing that they were misled, light cigarette smokers filed class action lawsuits under their states' unfair and deceptive business practices statutes
Thus Banzhaf establishedor so he hopeda forum that would prevent lawyers representing the tobacco and broadcasting interests from facing him in court territory they might consider most favorable to their side