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2. America's Best Chew - Wikipedia

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   America's Best Chew (formerly Red Man) is an American brand of chewing tobacco introduced in 1904. [1] Red Man traditionally came as leaf tobacco, in contrast to twist chewing tobacco or the ground tobacco used in snuff. It is made by the Pinkerton Tobacco company of Owensboro, Kentucky. In 1985, Pinkerton was acquired by a Swedish corporation ...

3. History of commercial tobacco in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The history of commercial tobacco production in the United States dates back to the 17th century when the first commercial crop was planted. The industry originated in the production of tobacco for British pipes and snuff. See Tobacco in the American colonies. In late 18th century there was an increase in demand for tobacco in the United States ...

4. Big Tobacco - Wikipedia

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   Big Tobacco is a name used to refer to the largest companies in the tobacco industry. According to the World Medical Journal, the five largest tobacco companies are: Philip Morris International, British American Tobacco, Imperial Brands, Japan Tobacco, and China Tobacco. These companies have substantial power economically, with revenues ...

5. Tobacco in the American colonies - Wikipedia

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   Tobacco cultivation and exports formed an essential component of the American colonial economy. It was distinct from rice, wheat, cotton and other cash crops in terms of agricultural demands, trade, slave labor, and plantation culture. Many influential American revolutionaries, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, owned tobacco ...

6. List of tobacco products - Wikipedia

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   Creamy snuff. Creamy snuff is a tobacco paste, consisting of tobacco, clove oil, glycerin, spearmint, menthol, and camphor, and sold in a toothpaste tube. It is marketed mainly to women in India, and is known by the brand names Dentobac, Tona, Ganesh. It is locally known as "mishri" in some parts of Maharashtra.

7. History of tobacco - Wikipedia

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   Sir Walter Raleigh introduced Virginia tobacco into England. "Raleigh's First Pipe in England", included in Frederick William Fairholt's Tobacco, its history and associations. John Hawkins was the first to bring tobacco seeds to England. William Harrison 's English Chronology mentions tobacco smoking in the country as of 1573, [8] before Sir ...