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- <text id=93TT1171>
- <title>
- Mar. 15, 1993: Cookies or Cigarettes
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 15, 1993 In the Name of God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 20
- BUSINESS
- Cookies or Cigarettes
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A new plan by RJR Nabisco will create a smoke-free zone for
- investors
- </p>
- <p> Smoking? Or nonsmoking? People are offered such a choice by
- restaurants and airlines. But now investors will be able to
- choose under a novel stock plan devised by tobacco and food
- giant RJR Nabisco. As part of a deal to raise $1.5 billion to
- reduce its $14 billion debt, RJR Nabisco will create two new
- classes of stock: RN-Reynolds, which will mainly represent the
- company's tobacco business, and RN-Nabisco, a proxy for the
- firm's food operations. RJR Nabisco is the nation's largest
- cookiemaker and the second biggest cigarette manufacturer.
- </p>
- <p> Stock analysts applauded the plan because it will allow the
- two parts of RJR to be valued for their individual worth. And
- since some investment funds have been barred from holding RJR
- shares for ethical reasons, the deal would attract new
- investors.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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