Word: tobaccomen
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...Tobaccomen were even more worried by the first sustained drop in U.S. cigarette consumption in 20 years, off 5.5% in the second quarter from 1952. Though 1953's total may still be higher than last year's, the rate of increase has slowed from 5% a year to a mere 1% (see chart). Tobacco stocks, by the latest count, totaled 1.9 billion Ibs., up 7% from a year...
...smokers, most U.S. cigarette makers long ago abandoned the naive idea that smoking was a mere pleasure. Instead, tobaccomen puffed up ad campaigns with testimonials from athletes and movie stars, and plugged such slogans as "less nicotine," "soothes the nerves," "aids digestion," "relieves fatigue," "never irritates the throat," and it's important to the "T-zone...
...makers of Camels and Old Golds promptly replied to FTC. The ads, said the tobaccomen, had been discontinued six years ago when FTC first objected to them. In its current campaign, Old Golds was plainly trying to live down the days when it had boasted "Not a cough in a carload." Now its ads loftily proclaimed: "A treat instead of a treatment." Camel had also switched somewhat. It now stated that its "30-day mildness test" of smokers, supervised by "noted throat specialists," produced no evidence of throat irritation due to smoking Camels...
Though Hill Jr. kept mum on his plans, tobaccomen did not think he intended to stay out of the company his grandfather and father had built to its present size.The scuttlebutt was that Hill Jr. hoped to stir up enough support from stockholders to get back in on his own terms...
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson announced that the Commodity Credit Corp. will spend about $25 million to finance the tobaccomen who had been buying flue-cured tobacco for the British. For example, if a buyer had 10,000,000 lbs. in British orders to place and had bought only 7,000,000 lbs., CCC would finance the remaining 3,000,000 lbs. In effect, the plan made the buyers agents for the Agriculture Department. If the buyers cannot sell their tobacco, the Department will take it off their hands...