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- BUSINESS, Page 49Business NotesTOBACCORequiem for A Stinker
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- The company had hailed its product as the "most significant
- breakthrough in cigarette history." But after seven years of
- development at an estimated cost of more than $300 million and
- five months of test marketing, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco last week
- scrapped its Premier cigarette. Billed as a "cleaner smoke,"
- Premier heated its tobacco instead of burning it. But the
- product tasted and smelled awful to most consumers.
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- Yet RJR has other innovations to offer the shrinking ranks
- of smokers. The company has been working on Chelsea, a
- vanilla-scented cigarette designed for women smokers. Test
- marketing will begin next month.
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