Tobacco Documents Online

100 years ago tomatoes were "poison,' In the 19th Century the tomato was considered poisonous ... children were warned to enjoy its beauty but not to taste it. Today we know the tomato is not only delicious but an excellent source of vitamins A and C. Now w•e are being told that tobacco Ss poison. The propaganda mills grind out dire warnings based om "research' : Toese warnings simply ignore other bodies of research which flatly state "no proved link" between tobaceo' and diseases of the lungs and heart. Several independent health agencies use the tobacco scare to raise huge sums of money. There is good reason to think that within a few years we will look back and laugh about "the great tobacco scare of the 1960's". In the meantime, there is a' vicious, unfair attempt to destroy a great American agricultural industry, affecting the livelihood of millions of people: Think about it?I Fu. Fdrthrr. Inlormctlox N'rifr:. Tobacco Associates, Inc. P.O. Box 2873' Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 (Representing over200,000. tobacro farmm families in Virginia„The. Carolinas, Georgia .nd~Florida.~