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- <text id=89TT0702>
- <title>
- Mar. 13, 1989: Business Notes:Tobacco
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Mar. 13, 1989 Between Two Worlds:Middle-Class Blacks
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- TOBACCO
- Requiem for A Stinker
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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