The rise and fall of America's deadly love affair with the cigarette

PPhiladelphia Tribune·By Mike Stobbe·October 30, 2026 Read on Philadelphia Tribune ↗

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Cancer stick. Coffin nail. Cowboy killer. Those are nicknames, through the decades, for the cigarette — the once-glamorous desideratum of American society that has been tied to tens of millions of

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