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Alan Blum, director of The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, documents advertisements from tobacco companies during an era not very long ago when a son giving his dad a gift of a carton of cigarettes was as American as apple pie. Blums center has put together an online exhibit featuring tobacco advertisements from those days

One thing they might find, which was not included in the exhibit, is a terse letter sent to Royko from a riled-up reader who conveyed the message: Up yours! Royko wrote back and really let the guy have it, said co-curator Kristin Emery, who had to stifle laughter as she read the missive at a table near several others quietly doing their own research in the library

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Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization (2003) Goodman, Jordan, ed