Corruption is a slow process, especially with a hardheaded idealist
Part of Marlboro's campaign mission, according to scholar Katherine West, was to convince male consumers that the filter did not change the (as one ad put it) man-sized taste of honest tobacco. While they originally concocted a campaign that presented a variety of macho archetypes, dubbed the Tattooed Manconstruction workers, mechanics, Navy officers, weightlifters, all bearing a black hand tat suggesting a heroic though dissolute pastthe cowboy was so successful that they soon abandoned the series and devoted all their energy to that single image of masculinity on the frontier
People thought it might be a chemical attack by the Japanese
the bed seemed to be unmade for a week, the slops had not been carried out for a fortnight, the room was foul with tobacco smoke, the floor, dirty enough to begin with, was littered with newspapers, from which Twain had cut his letters