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305's Dosal Tobacco: United States [2] A Mild (Samporena A) Sampoerna: Indonesia: October 19, 1990; 34 years ago () [3] [4] Absolute Mild Karyadibya Mahardika & Japan Tobacco: Indonesia [citation needed] Access Mild Moeria Mulia: Indonesia [citation needed] Africaine: Landewyck Tobacco Luxembourg: 1940s [5] Akhtamar Grand Tobacco Armenia [6 ...
This made Doral the first officially branded cigarette in the value-savings market. [ 4 ] In 1984, The New York Times tested various "low tar" and "low nicotine" brands and the tests concluded that Doral King Size and Doral King Size menthol had 5 MG of tar, 0,4 MG of nicotine and 3 MG of carbon monoxide .
United States v. Philip Morris USA, Inc. [1] was a case in which the United States District Court for the District of Columbia held several major tobacco companies liable for violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act [2] by engaging in numerous acts of fraud to further a conspiracy to deceive the American public about nicotine addiction and the health effects ...
Merit had a 3.1% market share in January 1992, a decline from 3.5% during the comparable period the year before, according to figures compiled by John C. Maxwell, Jr., an analyst at Wheat, First Securities Inc. Merit shipments for the period declined to 11.5 billion cigarettes, or more than half a billion packs, compared with 13.3 billion ...
R. J. Reynolds, founder Share of the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, issued 15 March 1906. The son of a tobacco farmer in Virginia, Richard Joshua "R. J." Reynolds sold his shares of his father's company in Patrick County, Virginia, and ventured to the nearest town with a railroad connection, Winston-Salem, to start his own tobacco company. [3]
In December 1981, the United Press International reported that the safest cigarettes in terms of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide were "Cambridge Filters", "Carlton Filters" and "Now 100s Filters". All three brands emerged from the Federal Trade Commission tests with less than 0.5 milligrams of tar, less than 0.05 milligrams of nicotine and ...
The other cigarette brands included in the C-rations were Camel, Chelsea, Chesterfield, Craven "A"-Brand, Old Gold, Philip Morris, Player's, Raleigh, and Wings. [17] The practice of including cigarettes in field rations continued through the Korean and Vietnam Wars , ending in 1976 with the growing evidence that linked smoking to various health ...
Operation Berkshire was created as a unified defensive strategy among international tobacco companies. The code name was initially suggested in a confidential memorandum to the then President of Philip Morris International, Hugh Cullman, by the then Chairman of Imperial Tobacco in the UK, Tony Garrett.