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Killing his ass
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/sports/baseball/tony-gwynn-family-sues-tobacco-altria-death.html?_r=0
Says they targeted him to encourage AA men to use dip. SKOAL specifically.
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Family of Tony Gwynn suing tobacco companies for (Original Post)
ghostsinthemachine
May 2016
OP
Tony saw the warning on the can. Has his family blown all his savings already?
NightWatcher
May 2016
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scscholar
(2,902 posts)1. What are AA men?
Skittles
(153,113 posts)4. African-American
scscholar
(2,902 posts)5. Thanks, with the "sports baseball" in the link...
I thought it was a baseball term.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)2. Tony saw the warning on the can. Has his family blown all his savings already?
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)3. Read the story
Not so black and white (pardon the pun).
Angel Martin
(942 posts)6. he was a paid to endorse a product that he used
and now the family sues the company he took money from ?