A vigilante wing, the "Night Riders", terrorized farmers who sold their tobacco at the low prices demanded by the tobacco corporations.

"It puts the profits of big tobacco corporations ahead of the health of our children," said Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts.

The state still owns the national telephone company and main tobacco corporation; as such, it is now a European anomaly.

Wagner was a dedicated non-smoker and objected when America's biggest tobacco corporation planned to picture him on a cigarette card without his permission.

Nevertheless, tobacco corporations have the power to change this system and directly improve the lives of the workers who harvest their product.

In 1985, R. J. Reynolds, the giant tobacco corporation, merged with Nabisco, the giant food-processing company.

It is one of the world's largest tobacco corporations.

And he didn't declare he was being financially supported by, you'll never guess, a transnational tobacco corporation.

"The farmers lose income, as the big tobacco corporations break into the Fortune 500."

Many years ago a tobacco corporation, as a promotional move, distributed a million free copies of a short introduction to bridge.