Dire, believe it or not, I worked @Tobacco Road in Regency Square in the 80's-when no one outside of Little Rock (or the politburo) had ever heard of Bill Clinton. We had point of sale advertising testimonial pictures of various celebrities who smoked cigars, and Doc Huxtable (Cosby) was one of them.
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