The temptation has been strong, from advertisements for tobacco in baseball cards decades ago, to the glorified moment of New York Yankees slugger Babe Ruth accepting a plug of chew from his girlfriend before a climactic game-winning hit in the 1927 movie, Babe Comes Home. What movies rarely document is the dark side: Tony Gwynn, one of the greats on and off the field, dying at 54 after a long fight with mouth cancer
It owns 92.5 percent of the shares of Sampoerna, the largest tobacco company in Indonesia producing clove cigarettes
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At the same time," she adds, referring to the decisive manner of his death, "he did have balls of gold." "I remember him once telling me that, as a young man, he used to type out whole chapters by Hemingway and Faulkner," I tell her, "just to see what it felt like to write those words
