Word: tobaccoman
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...with power." Says Clay: "Dundee gave me the jab. But the rest is me. What changed the most was my own natural ability." Either way, what happened next was a surprise. "If anyone had told me a year ago that Cassius would develop into an international figure," says Tobaccoman Cutchins. "I would have said he was smoking marijuana...
...like everyone else, soon ran into the formidable ambitions of James B. ("Buck") Duke, a North Carolina tobaccoman who had set up many factories, manufactured the first successful U.S. machine-made cigarettes. Duke pressured the other major tobacco manufacturers to join him in the American Tobacco Co., which became known as "the Tobacco Trust." "I don't intend to be swallowed by Duke," said Reynolds. "If he does, he'll have a bellyache the rest of his life." But Duke did swallow Reynolds by undercutting its plug prices?and Duke soon had his bellyache...
When reports linking cigarette smoking to cancer first came out. at least 1,500,000 of the 38 million U.S. smokers forsook the habit, said the Agriculture Department. Since then, most of those who quit "probably have resumed, mainly using filter-tip cigarettes." Commented a tobaccoman: "The cancer scare is good for filters...
...lighter tobacco that goes into regulars. Because of the tobacco difference, the filtered smoke usually carries more nicotine than the average regular, and just about the same amount of tar. Tobacco geneticists recently developed an exceptionally light, low-nicotine leaf that would have once been hailed as the tobaccoman's dream. But makers say it lacks the taste to sell, and so it is piling up in Government warehouses...
...Tobaccoman Hahn revealed that his company has been quietly supporting research of its own "in this field, within its own laboratory and in independent institutions.* It is our policy . . . to extend cooperation to projects where we believe that the researchers are approaching and will approach the subject without prejudice and without preconceived opinions . . . We are confident that long-range, impartial investigation . . . will confirm the view that neither tobacco nor its products contributes to the incidence of lung cancer...