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As William Rolen later explained to me, at his home, in Mississippi, Its clearly an intellectual war, a war of ideas, a cold war. Rolen, who broadcasts a show called Radio Free Dixie and publishes the newspaper Confederate Un- derground (billed as pro-South, prosecession, race conscious), said that Westermans killing had become a lightning rod because it was an unnecessary sacrifice of an all-American kid trying to bring up a family and murdered by kids raised under the welfare state. The flag, he added, was a sort of talisman against the mainstream culture, a symbol of common identity among Southerners in an age when so much of what we are comes from TV or Hollywood or Madison Avenue. Westermans aunt Brenda, who had become the familys point person for Rolen and the other rally organizers, was disturbed by some of the speeches that day, and was worried that Michaels memory was being used to air extremist views

Before now, we had a large body of epidemiological evidence linking smoking with cancer, but now we can actually observe and quantify the molecular changes in the DNA due to cigarette smoking
All in all, it was inevitable that cigarettes were going to come back into vogue
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