Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smith, relaxing in an armchair and filling the room with the wild cherry aroma of his pipe tobacco, did not feel powerless after his defeat. His unsuccessful campaign created a potentially devastating base of support--a coalition among white workers, Negroes, and intellectuals. "We have created something to work from, whether it's me or somebody else who runs next time. My job is to get the working class, the Negro and the intellectual together and screw the middle class...
Dart Boards & Holidays. Last week the tobacco industry came in for fresh trouble. The government took disturbed note of the fact that manufacturers have more than matched the decrease in their advertising budgets with major expenditures-$84 million in 1966-on gift-coupon promotions. With coupon-bearing cigarettes now accounting for 55% of all sales, British smokers use the premiums to get everything from dart boards to Caribbean holidays and discount auto insurance. Rising in the House of Commons, Minister of Health Kenneth Robinson announced that the government would introduce legislation to abolish cigarette coupons, take additional steps "to control...
...cigarette makers, Gallaher (leading brands: Senior Service and Kensitas) and Carreras (Guards and Rothmans), had already expressed their willingness to accept a coupon ban, even without legislation. Their cooperation was understandable, since their sales-especially of coupon brands-have lagged behind those of industry-leading Imperial Tobacco Co., whose two coupon brands, Player's No. 6 and Embassy, have captured 43% of British cigarette sales. For its part, Imperial insisted that the coupon promotions, while successful in brand competition among those who already smoke, do little to lure nonsmokers to the fold. Chairman John Partridge warned that Imperial would...
More to the point, so far as the government was concerned, was the likelihood that the latest measures would do little to curb smoking. And since tobacco brings in $2.8 billion in annual tax revenues, there were suspicions that the government preferred it that...
...Cigarette companies had special circumstances going for them that were as pretty as bright-leaf tobacco: their cigarette business is holding up despite recurring cancer scares, and they are making money on diversification projects. R. J. Reynolds reported record sales of $495 million and record earnings of $43,139,000 from Chinese foods, fruit punch, and aluminum foil as well as tobacco products. P. Lorillard's diversified operation accounted for record quarterly sales of $147 million and earnings...