Larry_Tye, The Father of Spin (1999), p
The guys who owned the club are talking, and I dont want to interrupt, so Im just standing there
In 1968, the F.T.C.s annual report had recommended that a strong warning to the effect that cigarette smoking may cause death be placed on all cigarette packages and included in all cigarette advertising and that cigarette advertising be banned from radio and television entirely
That americana , offered by the conqueror who now became an 'ally,' traveled straight to my heart, erasing memories and creating conflicting states of mind, but ones from which hope already sprang, since nothing better than smoking can nurse or baptize a new illusion..." This passage eloquently evokes the amnesiac quality conjured by Italys unlikely alliance with the United States, the washing away of years of Fascism, war, and suffering