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Artist's Description An old Bull Durham sign in downtown Durham, NC

Reynolds American, the North Carolina cigarette giant behind the Camel, Newport and Pall Mall brands, is infecting fast-growing tobacco plants with a genetically modified coronavirus to see if they can produce antibodies for a possible vaccine

Smoking is one of the leading risks for early death Smoking is responsible for about 8 million premature deaths each year The two regularly updated studies on the global death toll from tobacco use published by the World Health Organization and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation agree that around 8 million people die prematurely yearly

(This leaf was cracking and crumbling before de-stemming, and about half of the leaf was lost due to it being too dry.) Too wet, and your tobacco will make clumpy cigarettes, and bind and damage machines that you run it through

These are a form of dissuasive cigarettes, described further in Section 12A.7