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The Liggett and Myers Harpring Tobacco Storage Warehouse (built in 1930) is a building located in Lexington, Kentucky.The building is significant for its association with the burley tobacco industry in Lexington, Kentucky between 1930 and 1980 [1] and is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Fayette County, Kentucky.
Tobacco is amping up its presence in Kentucky. Gov. Andy Beshear announced Tuesday, Owensboro will soon be home to a $232 million investment by Philip Morris International Inc. affiliate Swedish ...
The Rice Tobacco Factory is a historic tobacco factory located at 112 N. Cherry St. in Greenville, Kentucky. The factory was built in 1922 by S.E. Rice, whose S.E. Rice Company was founded in 1904. Tobacco had been Muhlenberg County's largest cash crop throughout the 19th century, and the region became known for its variety, called "Greenville ...
Jeffrey Stephen Wigand (/ ˈ w aɪ ɡ æ n d /; born December 17, 1942) is an American biochemist and whistleblower.. He is a former vice president of research and development at Brown & Williamson in Louisville, Kentucky, who worked on the development of reduced-harm cigarettes and in 1996 blew the whistle on tobacco tampering at the company.
Advertisement of the Tube Rose snuff tobacco, from a catalog of the 1920 North Carolina State Fair. B&W was founded in Winston (today's Winston-Salem), North Carolina, as a partnership of George T. Brown and his brother-in-law Robert Lynn Williamson, whose father was already operating two chewing tobacco manufacturing facilities. [4]
More than a month after its June 4 first reading, Morgantown City Council has adopted a zoning text amendment creating the "smoke shop /tobacco store " use and restricting such uses to B-5 ...
The Brown Tobacco Warehouse is a historic warehouse building located in Louisville, Kentucky. The two-story brick structure was built in 1892. It was first occupied by John W. Brown & Brothers Tobacco Company. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]
This week Congress can expose the deceptions of Big Oil as it did for Big Tobacco nearly three decades ago.