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in that piece, I try to suggest that tobacco--
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this extraordinary reshaping of the tobacco landscape where now,
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again ten years ago, fifteen years ago people smoked in class,
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now you huddle outside doorways if you dare to smoke at all,
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enduring the disdainful wrath of your fellow consumers off--
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not wanting to breathe in your second-hand smoke--in the tobacco realm,
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that enormous change that huge settlement and so on,
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didn't come about because Congress said this must stop,
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or a President said this must stop.
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It came about because some legal actives got together,
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the Attorneys General in the various states,
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and effected a dramatic change.