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However, Durham’s dependence on tobacco turned out to be her greatest weakness. The Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement in 1998 hit Durham hard. In 1999 the city’s last tobacco company, Liggett & Myers, fled for small-town Mebane, NC, effectively ending over one hundred years of cigarette production in Durham (Cohn 23). The loss of the city ... ................
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