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...most part, however, tobacco-men profess confidence that the cigarette habit will not lose its hold on the public. The industry's largest producer, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camel, Winston, Salem) is test-marketing in Southern California, New England and North Carolina a new king-size nonfilter cigarette called Brandon, which ambitiously aims to displace American Tobacco Co.'s Pall Mall as the top individual seller. And Philip Morris President Joseph F. Cullman 3rd gave some hint of how the industry hopes to fight the medical issue. He told his company's stockholders last week that...
Despite continuing reports that cigarettes are the worst darn things, tobacco-men in 1958 scored their "biggest peacetime advance in 20 years." So last week in Printers' Ink wrote Consultant Harry M. Wootten, the man who knows the tobacco industry best. Sales last year, said Wootten, soared about 9% to top $4 billion; profits rose 11% to $220 million. Domestic consumption jumped to an alltime high of 430 billion cigarettes, up 5% for the year. Most important, per capita use broke the old record of 3,509 cigarettes set in 1952, just before the start of the medical reports...
CIGARETTE-SMOKING is on the way up again after a 7 % slump in the past two years. P. Lorillard and American Tobacco, with 40% of U.S. cigarette output, report first-quarter sales increases of 2% to 3%. Largely because of a big jump in filtertips (now 20% of the market), tobacco-men predict that overall cigarette sales will climb 5% above 1954's 368 billion total by year...
Auction Riot Lexington, Ky. is the scene each year of the biggest tobacco auctions in the U. S. But last week tobacco-men watched the smaller towns of Owensboro and Henderson instead. At Owensboro some 3,000 farmers collected around the main warehouse or ''floor'' for the year's first auction. A big, one-story frame building, covered with sheet metal, the "floor"' is a store room where buyers can see the actual lots of tobacco they buy, while each seller plainly hears what his neighbor gets for his crop. Most tobacco growers...
...income should be still larger. Specially well off are dairymen, beefmen, poultrymen, hogmen. Not so well off are grainmen, haymen, tobacco-men, potatomen...
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