For decades, cigarettes were marketed as symbol of virility, as in the macho Marlboro Man ads.

You've got to get this issue down to what's reasonable and sensible. That's an extreme, fundamentalist position. And I don't think we're that kind of country, are we?

In some outdoor environments, like football grounds and railway stations, there is genuine cause for concern. But in other places, there are pretty obvious facts about air circulation which mean the potential for harm is far less. Certainly, stopping people smoking in their homes is taking things a bit far.

It gives us a symbol of credibility that they had not really given us. It pushed us up a notch in a lot of people's thinking.

The man of the Cross, who heads the church whose symbol is the Cross, under which Jews were killed for generations. I could not escape the feeling. It stuck with me. And he felt it-that a Jewess was sitting opposite him.

The black farmer, working hard for his own, became the living symbol of the strong, independent black man. Farming also allowed black families to move into other businesses, from funeral homes to preaching to construction, and thus served as the bedrock of all black wealth in America.