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MARLBORO —Michael Hurst, who was struck by a car on Boston Post Road on Friday, remains in stable condition at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said Marlborough Police.
Hurst, 50, was flown by LifeFlight helicopter to the Worcester hospital Friday evening after being struck by a car on Boston Post Road East, near Wilson Street.
Police and fire crews responded at 6 p.m. and found the man on the ground and bleeding from the head. He lost consciousness and fractured his leg.
The man's head or shoulder struck and cracked the windshield, Deputy Fire Chief Stanley Clement said on Friday.
Hurst was not in a crosswalk when he was struck.
Chicago-based Compass Lexecon was retained by Greensboro, N.C.-based Lorillard Inc. to conduct economic analyses on the subject. Fredrick Flyer, senior vice president at Compass, acknowledged that his company therefore only had access to Lorillard’s Newport brand data, but said that his company found low elasticity in preference for the brand.
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Lyle Beckwith, senior vice president of government relations at NACS, said that thus far tobacco products have gone to the black market because of price. “I firmly believe that if there were to be a ban on menthol,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], that would be the spark that the black market in tobacco needs to push it into a more burgeoning problem for our country.” He added,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], “My membership loses sales when people go to the black market.”
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