R.J. Reynolds is smoking too

Praise God for this tobacco smoke.

WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina-- A fire tore through R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.'s former downtown complex Thursday, collapsing two buildings, gutting a third and forcing the evacuation of a jail across the street.

The blaze gutted the building that company founder R.J. Reynolds built around 1890 as a factory to make plug chewing tobacco. The country's second-largest tobacco maker added cigarette factories before moving to the suburbs in the early 1980s.

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Balaam's Ass Speaks wants to go on record praising God for destroying this landmark of murder and destruction.  We pray that many more tobacco enterprises will also be destroyed soon.

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