About two weeks later, another secret memo reinforced the earlier document's points and further declared that "there are currently 1,243 employees at Petersburg, but of these 112 have already been informed of redundancy and a further 173 will have to go because of declining export volumes irrespective of the proposed move to Macon ." Nowhere in my searches of the Brown & Williamson tobacco documents did I find any allusions to the city's actions being a factor in the plant closure.
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But the FDA panel voted to reject this claim, saying that the company hadn't provided enough evidence to show that its product lowers disease risk compared with cigarettes, according to Reuters
He frantically extinguished the blaze before running home and peeling off his jeans, exposing horrific charred burns all over his leg
Amid dust motes lit by the daylight that slanted through chinks in the walls, I tried to paint a picture: of workers, often women, standing in the open-air tying shed adjacent to the barn, pulling cotton twine from a spool to skillfully string the three aligned stems, or hands, of leaves to a one-inch- square, six-foot-long tobacco stick
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