In the background, two pyramids and palm trees complete the vintage Egyptian theme
As Gary Cross and Robert Proctor explain, the shift from air-cured to flue-cured tobacco was something like the shift from opium to heroin or from eating to injecting drugs by means of a hypodermic needle: a new form of consumption based on a new and intensified form of packaged delivery. It was curiously in being made more mild that tobacco became lethal
"What's interesting is that the studies show that if people are more addicted then they're at a greater risk of cancer, but that relationship is independent of how much people smoke," John Richie, a professor of public health sciences and pharmacology at Penn State and a study author, tells Shots
"My foundation fully supports its grant to establish the Levine Cancer Institute and believes that the Institute will improve the lives of thousands as it will redefine the delivery of cancer care in the Carolinas." Now, at least, North and South Carolina shoppers can rest assured that if they buy cigarettes at Family Dollar, the Cancer Institute will have their backs down the road.
