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		<title>The Tobacco Holocaust: Actions to Take for a Tobacco-Free World</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2011/09/23/the-tobacco-holocaust/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2011/09/23/the-tobacco-holocaust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>erin_legg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Regulation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big tobacco]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dr. michael rabinoff]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ending the tobacco holocaust: how big tobacco affects our health pocketbook and political freedom and what we can do about it]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Psychiatrist Dr. Michael Rabinoff is the author of the award-winning book Ending the Tobacco Holocaust: How Big Tobacco Affects Our Health, Pocketbook, and Political Freedom—And What We Can Do About It (Elite Books). In this book, Dr. Rabinoff offers readers great detail on every aspect of the tobacco industry as well as how we can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FTC  Discontinues Tar and Nicotine Test</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/12/06/ftc-discontinues-tar-and-nicotine-test/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/12/06/ftc-discontinues-tar-and-nicotine-test/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Smoking Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cigarette advertisements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[federal trade commission]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 42 years, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ended a test to measure the amount of tar and nicotine in cigarettes. According to the Associated Press, the FTC decided to discontinue the testing for two reasons: the test itself was flawed, and tobacco companies could use the results to promote one brand of cigarette [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FTC Rescinds Guidance On Cigarette Testing</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/11/29/ftc-rescinds-guidance-on-cigarette-testing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/11/29/ftc-rescinds-guidance-on-cigarette-testing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Smoking Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cambridge filter method]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pamela jones harbor]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/?p=941</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For over four decades the tobacco industry has used machine testing approved by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to measure tar and nicotine levels in cigarettes. But in a 4-0 vote, the FTC has now shunned the tests, known as the Cambridge Filter Method, rescinding guidance it established 42 years ago. The National Cancer Institute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Tobacco Companies Covered Up Radiation Dangers From Smoking</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/09/06/big-tobacco-covered-up-radiation-danger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/09/06/big-tobacco-covered-up-radiation-danger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Smoking Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dangers of smoking tobacco]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tobacco companies have covered up for 40 years the fact that cigarette smoke contains a dangerous radioactive substance that exposes heavy smokers to the radiation equivalent of having 300 chest X-rays a year. Internal company records reveal that cigarette manufacturers knew that tobacco contained polonium-210 but avoided drawing public attention to the fact for fear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coldcut: The Truth About Big Tobacco Companies</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/05/30/coldcut-the-truth-about-big-tobacco-companies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/05/30/coldcut-the-truth-about-big-tobacco-companies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 22:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robbster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nicotine Addiciton Dependence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history of tobacco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philip morris]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/?p=786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This video provides a quick flash of facts about the history of Big Tobacco. Learn facts and how the truth of nicotine addiction was manipulated, twisted, and denied. For instance, in 1943 Philip Morris claimed their cigarettes cleared coughs, then in 1961 Philip Morris research identifies cancer-causing compounds in cigarettes three years before Surgeon General&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco Companies Alter Cigarettes to Keep You Smoking</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/04/14/tobacco-companies-keep-you-smoking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/04/14/tobacco-companies-keep-you-smoking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nicotine Addiciton Dependence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cigarette chemicals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freebase nicotine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nicotine addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A doctor from the American Cancer Society reports on how large tobacco companies keep you smoking. By upping nicotine in cigarettes each year and intensifying the concentration smokers stay addicted. Even though smoking is responsible for one in five deaths in the US, the Tobacco industry has no qualms about using nicotine addiction and dependency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UT takes $445,000 of Philip Morris Money for Tobacco Grower Research</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/02/27/ut-takes-445000-of-philip-morris-money-for-tobacco-grower-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/02/27/ut-takes-445000-of-philip-morris-money-for-tobacco-grower-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kabuki</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Smoking Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[american cancer society]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[burley tobacco growers cooperative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[center for disease control and prevention]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should the University of Tennessee accept money from the tobacco industry to help promote the growth of domestic tobacco production? That ethical question has yet to be debated—even nearly six months after UT quietly received a one-year $445,000 grant from Philip Morris to establish and operate a Center for Tobacco Grower Research in Morgan Hall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8220;Sunny Side&#8221; of Tobacco</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/02/22/727/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/02/22/727/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/02/22/727/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Washington, DC, February 22, 2008 In 2008, the truth® youth smoking prevention campaign unleashes music, dancing and cartoons to reveal the “sunny side” of tobacco use and the tobacco industry. The American Legacy Foundation®’s edgy truth® campaign is designed to educate teens about tobacco by exposing Big Tobacco’s marketing practices, as well as highlighting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco Companies Target Young Female Smokers: Hot Pink Ladies-Only</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/02/22/tobacco-done-up-in-pink-to-hook-young/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/02/22/tobacco-done-up-in-pink-to-hook-young/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/02/22/tobacco-done-up-in-pink-to-hook-young/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We don’t see much of the Marlboro Man anymore, but what about the &#8220;Virginia Slims&#8221; woman? Everybody knows what happened to him – or them, two of whom died from lung cancer. She, however, was never quite as iconic. But that doesn’t mean the tobacco companies don’t have a soft spot for women, especially the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Universities Reject Funding From Tobacco Companies</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/02/17/universities-reject-funding-from-tobacco-companies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/02/17/universities-reject-funding-from-tobacco-companies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2008/02/17/universities-reject-funding-from-tobacco-companies/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Just because it&#8217;s green, we don&#8217;t have to take it,&#8221; said Paula Murray, associate dean at the University of Texas&#8217; McCombs School of Business, to The New York Times. Murray was referring to her school&#8217;s recent decision to cut off all funding from Philip Morris, a cigarette manufacturer that has donated over $308,500 to business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco Industry Puts Profits Before Kids in Defeating Oregon Ballot Initiative</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/11/07/tobacco-industry-puts-profits-before-kids-in-defeating-oregon-ballot-initiative/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/11/07/tobacco-industry-puts-profits-before-kids-in-defeating-oregon-ballot-initiative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robbster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statement of William V. Corr, Executive Director, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Tobacco or Kids? Who has values? Washington, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ &#8212; By telling $12 million worth of lies, the Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds tobacco companies have again protected their profits at the expense of children. By defeating a ballot initiative to increase Oregon&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Measure 50 Fails in Oregon</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/11/07/measure-50-fails-in-oregon-huge-sigh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/11/07/measure-50-fails-in-oregon-huge-sigh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robbster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Measure 50 would have raised the tax on a pack of cigarettes by 85 cents to pay for children&#8217;s health care and other programs in Oregon. Don&#8217;t let this failure for the health of Oregon&#8217;s children lead you to believe that Big Tobacco will always win. There will always be web sites like Ciggyfree to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You &#8216;For Sale&#8217; on Measure 50 in Oregon</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/11/03/are-you-for-sale-on-measure-50-oohrah-oregon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/11/03/are-you-for-sale-on-measure-50-oohrah-oregon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Tobacco Regulation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Tobacco is sweating this one out after poison-nicotine profits supply $12 millions for subverting Oregon voters. That old cliche &#8220;The nation&#8217;s eyes are on you&#8221; is quite literally true for Tuesday&#8217;s vote.  Big Tobacco has been forced to wreak out the largest bribe-run of political-ad monies in Oregon&#8217;s history, with $12 millions already spent. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Send the Carpetbaggers Home: Vote Yes on 50</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/25/send-the-carpetbaggers-home-vote-yes-on-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salem Oregon &#8211; What was it Deep Throat said during the Watergate fiasco? &#8220;Follow the money.&#8221; When we do so today in the Measure 50 debate what do we find? We find the anti-50 side has shattered all records for spending&#8230; over $10 million and still going strong&#8230; 99.999% of which comes from three out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reynolds American Adds $304,000 to Fight Oregon Measure 50</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/24/reynolds-american-adds-304000-to-fight-oregon-measure-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robbster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dave Hogan from The Oregonian reported today that: Reynolds American, the makers of Camel cigarettes, has contributed another $304,000 to the record-setting campaign against Measure 50, which would raise Oregon&#8217;s cigarette tax by 85 cents a pack.&#8221; Reynolds, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., has now contributed $4.6 million to the Oregonians Against The Blank Check campaign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cigarette Companies Light Up More Donations Against Measure 50</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/15/cigarette-companies-light-up-more-donations-against-measure-50/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/15/cigarette-companies-light-up-more-donations-against-measure-50/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a last-drag effort to defeat Oregon&#8217;s 85-cents-a-pack tax increase on cigarettes, the makers of Camel smokes tossed in another $905,000 today against the fight to crush Measure 50. Today&#8217;s donation puts tobacco contributions at a staggering record of $10 million so far. Reynolds American, the producers of Camel, has now contributed $4.2 million to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s Magazines Should &#8216;Drop&#8217; Camel No. 9 Cigarette Ads</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/12/womens-magazines-should-drop-camel-no-9-cigarette-ads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/12/womens-magazines-should-drop-camel-no-9-cigarette-ads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a &#8220;big disappointment&#8221; that R J Reynolds has &#8220;found an ally&#8221; in some women&#8217;s magazines, which have &#8220;sold out the well-being of their readers&#8221; by publishing Camel No. 9 cigarette advertisements, Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) writes in a Washington Post opinion piece. Reynolds in February launched the brand, which several public health organizations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Tobacco Before Congress: Ex-Tobacco Scientist Tells Story at Pinon Hills, Nevada</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/08/ex-tobacco-scientist-speaks-at-pinon-hills-nevada/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/10/08/ex-tobacco-scientist-speaks-at-pinon-hills-nevada/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minden &#8211; Students of Pinon Hills Elementary School expressed both wonder and disgust when Victor DeNoble walked around showing them a piece of a human brain. &#8220;It looks pretty cool but kind of disgusting,&#8221; said fourth-grader Timothy Cadaret at the presentation. DeNoble, a former tobacco scientist for Philip Morris, said he approached a 63-year-old hospital [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trial Tech Smokes Out Big Tobacco</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/09/10/trial-tech-smokes-out-big-tobacco/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senior counsel Sharon Eubanks, a 22-year veteran attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, quit her job on the cusp of the most significant legal victory of her career. She left in December 2005, just eight months before a judge would decide the huge tobacco case she had devoted six years to prosecuting. She was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan Takes Steps Toward Preventing a Tobacco Epidemic</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/09/08/pakistan-ratifies-global-tobacco-treaty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/09/08/pakistan-ratifies-global-tobacco-treaty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robbster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan is one of 146 countries that have ratified the global tobacco treaty. By taking this measure the country is making a great step forward in protecting the health and lives of its citizens from the tobacco epidemic. Many countries around the world are seeing an increase is disease and death related to tobacco smoking. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobacco Industry Marketing in Indiana Tops 239 Million</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/09/03/indiana-tobacco-industry-marketing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/09/03/indiana-tobacco-industry-marketing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robbster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While cigarette companies are subtle in their approach, they have aggressive intentions. The tobacco industry spends an estimated $239 million annually for marketing in Indiana alone. This is a lot of money, perhaps it is because they need to find replacement smokers, because their loyal customers are dying every day. ~ Our View &#8211; IndyStar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cigarette Ingredients and Composition</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/03/20/cigarette-composition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2007 02:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robbster</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cigarettes look deceptively simple, consisting of paper tubes containing chopped up tobacco leaf, usually with a filter at the mouth end. In fact, they are highly engineered products, designed to deliver a steady dose of nicotine. Cigarette tobacco is blended from two main leaf varieties: yellowish &#8216;bright&#8217;, also known as Virginia where it was originally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rubbing His Hands All the Way to the Bank</title>
		<link>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/01/10/rubbing-his-hands-all-the-way-to-the-bank/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ciggyfree.com/cigblog/2007/01/10/rubbing-his-hands-all-the-way-to-the-bank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CiglessBot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was half-an-hour late getting to Nicogel. It was so difficult to find I almost gave up, eventually crossing a muddy yard and discovering a well-hidden door, the name of the company so small, you&#8217;d think they had something to hide. Far from it. Nicogel turns out to be spectacular. Take the following ingredients: the [...]]]></description>
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