On we go to the tour bus. Both Vicki, our guide, and the bus are decorated in the red and white Marlboro color scheme. In small quantities, tobacco doesn't smell any worse than, say, the trunk of the car I owned in college. This place kinda reeks. It's also not exactly the most enlightened workplace.
Workers wear drone uniforms, but supervisors get to wear their regular clothes.
Whereas the executive suites have a lovely view of the facility's gardens and landscaping, the windows on the manufacturing floor are silvered, reflecting the giant machines back into the face of any worker seeking the sun. How much of that goes to Jesse Helms isn't specified, but it's not hard to see why the War on Drugs doesn't include nicotine. Matter of fact, last year's House of Representatives inquiry into nicotine levels was mostly wiped out when Gingrich appointed Congressperson Philip Bliley, the Republican from Philip Morris's home district, to head the very committee doing the inquiry. Bliley and Gingrich both have tobacco dollars in their pockets. No one smokes on the factory floor.