Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still add up to a record. But good times are here again, thanks to the Surgeon General's report linking cigarette smoking and cancer. So far this year, cigar sales are running 30% above last year. Last week, while R. J. Reynolds, Liggett & Myers and American Tobacco all reported lower first-quarter sales, the report of Consolidated Cigar Corp. came out as rosy as the tip of a well-lit 75-center. Consolidated, the largest of the some 500 U.S. cigar makers (with 25% of all sales), showed an 18.7% hike in sales for the quarter and seems certain...
...roughly the same five-cent cigar that Thomas Marshall wanted. To provide it, and at the same time keep their earnings up, cigar makers are trying to eliminate costly hand operations. American Machine & Foundry has perfected machinery to roll any type of cigar, uses reconstituted wrappers in which tobacco leaves have been destemmed and ground. If it can produce popular, machine-made cigars, the industry will indeed have a glowing future...
...seemed unlikely to declare independence from Britain immediately. His party holds a wafer-thin, five-seat majority in the 65-man Parliament, and he probably will not get parliamentary support for such a move. Moreover, the British now pay preferential prices for Southern Rhodesia's staple crop of tobacco; thus, independence might be costly. Hendrik Verwoerd's government in South Africa sympathizes with Smith's policies, but Verwoerd has no desire to take on Southern Rhodesia's economic and military problems in addition...
Though who is doing what in the industry is a competitive secret, some manufacturers are trying a modern variant of their grandfathers' way of curing tobacco. They used to let it dry in the air, stored it in hogsheads, in which it fermented; now, to cut losses from spoilage in storage, this method has largely been supplanted by flue-curing, or redrying, which pasteurizes the tobacco before storage and prevents fermentation. A Polish-born agricultural technologist, Jan Beffinger, recently reported that there is less lung cancer among smokers in Russia and Poland, where air-cured tobacco is treated with...
Surprisingly, tobacco stems yield less tar and noxious gases than the leaves. So, said Wynder and Hoffmann, there is less risk in smoking cigarettes if finely shredded stems are left in the tobacco, or if they are made from compressed sheets of homogenized tobacco dust and stems. Finally, finer cuts of the tobacco leaf itself make a less hazardous cigarette than the coarse cuts...