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Deceased 10-30-98 (19981030) Due to Bladder Cancer the Doctor Attributed to Smoking.

Date: 13 Jul 1999
Length: 1 page
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Abstract

Searching the tobacco industry's documents using the keyword "deceased" turns up a significant amount of gut-wrenching correspondence from desperately sad and angry people whose relatives who have died from tobacco-induced illness. Most of this correspondence seems to be prompted by discount cigarette offers that tobacco companies continue mail to smokers after they have died.

Today's document is an example of this. A cigarette widow's sad notes are hand-written over a Doral free carton offer mailed to her deceased husband ...

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[Written over adressee's name:] Deceased 10-30-98 due to bladder cancer the doctor attributed to smoking. Please remove this name from your mailing list.

I could not persuade him to quit smoking even for his 18 month old granddaughter whom he loved dearly. She misses him terrible as do we all.

Dottie Shaffer, Widow

Company
R.J. Reynolds
Author
Shaffer, D.
Tx Conroe
Recipient
Doral & Co. Free Carton Offer
Region
United States
Type
CONSUMER LETTER
HANDWRITTEN
PROMOTIONAL MATERIALS
Named Person
Shaffer, Gilbert (deceased customer still on mailing list)
Subject
consumer market
health effects
promotions

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PO BOX S+3O39 Richardson, TX 75(k43-3039 Address S,~rvicc Requcstad Your First Doral & Co. Free Carton ~, . CNfer 'ts Inside! ULTRA LIGHTS: 4 mg. "tar", 0.3 mg. nicotine, ULTRA LIGHTS 100's: 4 mg. "iar", 0.4 mg. nicotine,;LiGHTS BOX: 8 mg. "tar', 0.5 mg- nicotine, LJGHTS MENTHOL;llG'rlTS: 8 mg. "iar", 16 mg. nicotine, IJG fTS 10"u's, LIGHTS MENTHOL 700's: 10 mg: "tar", 0.7 mg. ncotine, LIGiiTS BOX 100's, FULL FLAVOR 100's:12 mg. "tar', 0.8 mg- nicotlne,tULL FLAVOR, FULL PLAVOR'$OX, FULL FLAVOR BOX 100's, FULL FLAVOR MENTHOL, FULL FLAVOR MENTHOL 103's: 13 mg. "tar", 0.8 m.g. nicotine, MENTHOL BOX: 13 mg. "tar, 0-9 mg. nicotine, NON-FlLTER 85's:19 mg. "tar",1.0 mg. nlcotine, av. per cigarette by F7C mgthoc. iBVNCXXT RLJTOCR ** R029 _f2084158888024206• 0004-C01-03 -:'I0-208415888--CC8 'G'S 1be'rt''Shafier 8C2420 17768,Dean Ct Conroe,. TX 77302-6909 MAILING RESTRICCEDTOSMOICERS 21 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER. If wu uould lise.ynur name removed I'rom our mailirtg Iut[ pL:n.: sond vour nam.: and addr:+, in: .- vtailinu List. HO. Box335, Winston-Salem. NC27102-0:*S5. BULK RATE U.S. POSTAGE PAID &7.BEYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY /
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