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The move is a significant blow to public health groups who said banning menthol had the potential to save hundreds of thousands of lives, particularly among Black smokers

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Many in the industry's manufacturing sector have initiatives that go beyond compliance and view some environmental regulation as a low bar which they can clear with ease

In April 1720, Philip Thomas of Anne Arundel County petitioned the colonial General Assembly for the return of his enslaved servant who had run away to the Tuskarora [sic] Indians who refuse to deliver the same. In response, the Assembly ordered the Tuscarora, whose village was located on the Monocacy River, to Deliver the said Servant or shew Cause why they detain him Contrary to the Treatie [sic] of Peace made with them last Assembly. Two years later, the Assembly sought a similar treaty of Friendship and Amity with the Shawnee, who had villages along the upper Potomac River

As she had done on hundreds of similar journeys, she would carry the bags into the post office of a small town somewhere and set them on the counter with a lithic clunk while the postmasters eyeballs moved forward over the tops of his reading glasses

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