![]() Reynolds company’s coal-fired power plant, now being transformed into restaurants and research labs. ![]() People do yoga on the lawns and sip coffee under the umbrellas of a new downtown park completed last year in the shadow of the R.J. Today, the skeletal remains of Winston-Salem’s manufacturing history have been reanimated as labs, co-working space, university classrooms and swank loft apartments. And over the years, the parent had provided." "We had been like a baby in the womb," then Mayor Martha Wood later told the New York Times. Once one of the richest and most powerful cities in the Southeast, it had lost tens of thousands of jobs as its manufacturing base retrenched or fled the North Carolina Piedmont altogether its leadership was in shock. Punk rockers were jamming late into the night in lonely loft space at the center of the city because there was nobody around to bother. Reynolds, the city’s most famous corporate citizen, which had merged with food giant Nabisco and moved its headquarters to Atlanta. Prostitutes and drug dealers roamed Trade Street, once the commercial heart of the city, while to the east, abandoned tobacco factory buildings stretched for block after block, a reminder of the downsizing of R.J. Just 20 years ago, Winston-Salem was a city in decline. It’s work that’s healing wounded soldiers and sick civilians, but it’s also a remarkably apt metaphor for the regeneration that has helped bring this city of 230,000 back to life. ![]() In the not-too-distant future they hope to “bioprint” kidneys, noses, livers and other tailor-made organs and tissue for surgical implantation. In another laboratory, workers are producing human ears and tissue with a 3D printer. Inside a suite of laboratories nestled amid what was once the world’s largest tobacco manufacturing complex, a team of researchers is growing human bladders, tracheas and muscles using the patients’ own cells. The estimations are that in 2020 there will be less than 12 percent of adult smokers.Colin Woodard is a Politico Magazine contributing editor, the author of the recently released American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good and a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for his work at Maine’s Portland Press Herald. Statistics from 2014 are even more promising, showing that only 16.8 percent of adults smoked cigarettes. In 2005, that number was almost cut in half, when 20.9 percent of adults consumed cigarettes. According to Washington Post, 50 years ago, two out of five adults in the United States were smokers. Either this worked or maybe people have started taking their health more seriously now with all the healthy lifestyle trend, seeing that the consumption of tobacco has seen a steady decrease in the recent years. The reason why the cigarettes are more expensive now than ever lies in the fact that the governments are raising the taxes, forcing the rise in prices, in hope that this will make people smoke less. No, the company that produces your favorite cigarette brand isn’t keen on squeezing more money out of you by using your addiction (at least nothing more than usual). The prices of cigarettes are rising all over the world.
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