, and it is said that the duke of marlborough proposed in this room. it was a dollar bride wedding if you will. consuelo vanderbilt brought to the table a great amount of wealth so the duke of marlborough could use the money brought to the wedding to restore his property in england, blenheim castle. in the same turn consuelo gained a title and she and the duke were married for a good long period of time, but in the end their marriage was anulled even after children. she did a very good job as the duchess. however, it was never meant to be. consuelo vanderbilt desperately wanted to marry another young man, warren rutherford. her mother, however, want the her daughter to married into royalty and so through a lot of mac machine nations make during the duke and her daughter would be matched up. alva vanderbilt was a very interesting character. as i mentioned before she grew up in the south and during the civil war her family moved to france to get away from the warfare in the south so grew up with a lot of sentiment for friends. she then married william va

in 1983, philip morris began adding sugar to the marlborough cigarette.f you look at the history of marlborough, sugar went up about 26%, the acetaldehyde when up at by 40%. it wasn't until 1996 that marlborough became the best selling cigarette in the world with the altered structure. c-span: the philip morris company is how big and how does that relate to the altria named? >> guest: i think altria is the parent name for a series of companies. i forget the other ones. phillip morris is a huge company. i don't know how big -- mr. evans might know. but it is a massive organization >> guest: at the time that victor was doing the work, finding that more of this drug makes them press levers much more -- we have documented science that they changed the recipe for marlborough and continued to change it until it requested the ratio that victor found in 1982. what the optimal amount that they like the best. that is such a great and genetic thing, and we didn't have the time to even put it into the movie. c-span: someone today smokes a cigarette, how many differen