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Cranston, at 69 the most ebullient and energetic campaigner in the pack, has been able to make hay with the straw polls. "I love 'em," he gloats. And well he should. His straw-poll upset of Mondale in Wisconsin seemed to bear out his intense organizational effort in the state (one aide spent six weeks in a single congressional district). But thus far Cranston has been unable to attract broad popular support. As he took a Fourth of July ride on a ferry across Puget Sound to Winslow, Wash. (pop. 2,420), and paraded amid bagpipers and bellydancers there...
...matter how fierce or ingenious their attempts to outdo one another, American cigarette makers have historically had one thing in common: 20 smokes to a pack. But last week even that came unwrapped. In smoke shops and supermarkets in 33 states, Century cigarettes from R.J. Reynolds (1982 total sales: $10.9 billion) made their debut with 25 to the pack and 225 cigarettes to the nine-pack carton. Century still costs about the same as other brands. Reynolds ads made that point clear: "New Century-taste that delivers in the moneysaving 25 pack...
Century is such a break with tradition that it is literally changing the way the industry does business. The wider-than-standard pack, for example, will fit in men's shut pockets but, at least for now, not in vending machines, where 8% to 10% of cigarettes are sold. The brand will not even be sold in 17 states for the time being because their taxing systems are geared to increments of ten or 20 cigarettes. This means that the 25-smoke packages would be taxed in some states as if they contained 30 or 40 cigarettes, which would...
Perhaps the most important cause of the recent drop was the doubling, to 16? per pack, of the federal cigarette tax on Jan. 1. In addition, many states-14 since 1982-are pushing up their levies on smokes. Says Reynolds Tobacco Chairman Edward A. Horrigan Jr.: "The excise tax, coupled with state tax increases, caused a dramatic drop in sales during the first quarter of the year." Wisconsin has the dubious honor of having the highest state cigarette tax: 25? a pack, making total taxes on a pack 41?. Those increases helped push up the price of a standard pack...
Average prices now range from 72? in tobacco-growing North Carolina to $1.06 in Connecticut, but in New York City smokers can shell out $1.25 a pack. Gone are the days when smokes cost 22? in machines; a quarter bought a pack plus 3? change wrapped in the cellophane...