Tobacco companies poured $4.5 million in 1997the most ever for a year without a presidential electioninto congressional campaign chests and national political party coffers, an analysis of public interest-group databases, Federal Election Commission data and other sources reveal, wrote David Phinney in his article Congress Awash in Big Tobacco Money for ABC News on May 6, 1998
The overall sample included 14,555 tobacco users and 273,162 non-users
They are experimenting with licensing, taxation, product regulation, publicity and public education
Regardless, Laughlin profited by nine pounds, 19 shillings on the transaction enabling him to purchase many different fabrics from the Colchester store: cotton, bearskin, osnaburg, roles, linen, striped Holland, German serge, shalloon, sheeting, ferrit, check, and buckram
J Vasc Surg, 1996