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additional background information, please see
Mr. Reynolds' Speech on World No Tobacco Day.
This
speech answers FAQs in the sections with these subtitles:
My father died from smoking
Tobacco issues most important to me
(see also: University lecture, current topics)
Some RJ Reynolds family memories
How my family feels, then and now
My story: how I became an advocate against tobacco
A vision and promise: the coming smokefree society
Article
by Patrick Reynolds, Death from Smoking in the RJ
Reynolds Family
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Photo 38 A frame from one of the Florida Truth Campaign's anti-smoking TV PSA's, used in the new video, The Truth About Tobacco. |
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In Patrick Reynolds' university lecture, he speaks about the power of the tobacco lobby over Congress. Photo: 'capgun' - No permission required. |
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BEFORE: Patrick's father, R.J. Reynolds, Jr. in 1946, in good health at age 40. A Lieutenant-Commander in the Navy in WWII, he was navigator for a task force in the Pacific. He smoked since his teens, first Camels and later Winstons. Patrick Reynolds' book, The Gilded Leaf, was published by Little, Brown in 1989. It tells the biography of three generations of the Reynolds family. Now out of print, it may be found at most libraries, used bookstores, or ordered through a book search by www.amazon.com. No permission required for this photo. Photo 29 |
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Patrick's mother, MARIANNE O'BRIEN REYNOLDS, |
R.J.REYNOLDS, who founded the tobacco company in 1875,
began manufacturing Camel cigarettes in 1913. He died in 1918, of cancer
of the pancreas, after a lifetime of chewing tobacco -- ironically, the
same product which established his fortune, and earlier, his father's,
in the tobacco business. Studies have linked cancer of
the pancreas to chewing tobacco. He married at age 53, and died at age
67, when his eldet son, RJ Reynolds, Jr., was just 12. As a result, R.J.
Jr. would never spend much time working in the tobacco business, nor would
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