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Hollywood has now raped the Marlboro Man. It has taken a revered symbol of America -- the cowboy -- with all the powerful emotions and associations that are rooted deep down in the pioneering American soul, and grafted onto it a self-destructive lifestyle it wants to force down Americans' throats.

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