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International: Asia - Other Countries

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Senator Jesse Helms boasts that he intends to use his chairmanship of the Senate

Foreign Relations Committee to bring the world's most lucrative emerging tobacco

markets to North Carolina. He and RJR on March 30, 1996 hosted a dinner for

Vietnam's ambassador-designate to Washington, along with six other envoys from

Southeast Asia. RJ Reynolds has invested $21 million in a joint-venture cigarette

factory in Da Nang. "At a moment when tobacco executives are fending off Federal

grand juries and corporate whistleblowers armed with embarrassing internal

documents, Mr. Helms is doing what he can to make sure that North Carolina tobacco

gains opportunities in Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand."

New York Times, April 2, 1996, p. A2

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Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) chain smoked Salem cigarettes (Dan Rather, CBS news,

People of the Century program, April 6, 1998). Another account by Stanley Karnow

(Time, April 13, 1998) stated that Ho preferred Camels or Lucky Strikes. He began

smoking American cigarettes when he lived in Paris during World War One.

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A Vietnam travel description of Ho Chi Minh City, the former Saigon, mentioned two

minivans with "Marlboro" written on the outside pulling up on the street, and "out

popped a small army who handed out free cigarettes."

Contra Costa (Calif.) Times, June 7, 1998, p. E2

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