Fact
In the past, Big Tobacco described some low-income consumers as "very repressed," having "low self-esteem" and "an overall pessimistic outlook on life."
Source 1:
Author: G.P. Ward, an employee of Brown and Williamson (as indicated by the headline “internal correspondence”
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