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Part of Marlboro's campaign mission, according to scholar Katherine West, was to convince male consumers that the filter did not change the (as one ad put it) man-sized taste of honest tobacco. While they originally concocted a campaign that presented a variety of macho archetypes, dubbed the Tattooed Manconstruction workers, mechanics, Navy officers, weightlifters, all bearing a black hand tat suggesting a heroic though dissolute pastthe cowboy was so successful that they soon abandoned the series and devoted all their energy to that single image of masculinity on the frontier

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References Matthew Hilton, Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800-2000: Perfect Pleasures , (Manchester University Press, 2000)

The American Lung Association is urging the FDA to require that diacetyl and other harmful chemicals be removed from e-cigarettes (removal from the fluid accessories)

regulations allow small amounts to be used as a food additive