An unwelcome plug for chewing tobacco

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Chewing tobacco just isn’t blessed with many spontaneous celebrity endorsements. U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Corp., makers of Skoal dip, must have been at least somewhat pleased, then, when Gretchen Wilson wrote a song called “Skoal Ring” for her latest album—even though the country singer’s main talent seems to lie in calling herself a redneck. (“I’m redneck woman/And I ain’t no high-class broad/I’m just a product of my raisin’/And I say “Hey, y’all” and “Yee-haw,” goes her hit song.)

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