In the songs he and Edwards composed for Chic and other artists, the gritty glamour of the local demimonde Black and white and Latino, gay and straight and in between became a global ideal, immortalized in anthems of freedom and transgression that rippled across the planet
"In an extremely disappointing end to 2023, the White House bowed to tobacco industry pressure and failed to move forward in 2023 with finalizing rules to eliminate menthol as a characterizing flavor in cigarettes and prohibit all characterizing flavors in cigars," the American Lung Association wrote in its annual State of Tobacco Control report
He built up his national profile via coverage of issues such as the Civil Rights Movement and Watergate, and was tapped to anchor the documentary series CBS Reports in 1974
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If the smugglers were caught, the punishment was not steep: usually confiscation of the cigarettes and possibly the vehicle, too, with a fine or probation.[163] The inventory of seized cigarettes that New Jersey's police accumulated had been given to prisons, welfare agencies and other state institutions throughout the 1950s, but by the mid-1960s, the volume of arrests and confiscations was now so great that New Jersey's state institutions could no longer smoke them all.[164] North Carolina was still selling unstamped, untaxed cigarettes in the 1960s, and when agents from Connecticut or New Jersey attempted surveillance of smugglers there, hoping to record license plate numbers as vehicles headed north from cigarette wholesalers, they ran into trouble