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Philip Morris soon took Old Gold's place in the Big Four. By 1943, Al Lyon had boosted sales to 29 billion cigarets a year, was drawing a bead on his nearest leader, Chesterfield. Then the war began to pinch production. His galloping sales increases slowed down to a...
For weeks ravenous U.S. cigaret smokers had disconsolately puffed noninflammable cigarets with strange trade names, most of which tasted like burning lint. Now the customers straggled vainly from store to store in the futile effort to find even these brands. By last week, the U.S. cigaret shortage had turned into...
OPA seemed most confused of all. Although customers in some places were buying standard brands above the ceiling price OPA brushed off the suggestion that a sizable black market might be growing up. Then OPA cracked down on the American Tobacco Co., which, it said, had sold its Lucky Strikes...
From Tennessee, West Virginia, Missouri, Illinois and Ohio came other reports last week that women, deprived of popular-brand cigarets, were taking to pipes. Across the nation, cigaret shelves were bare and gagsters were demanding "a package of 'Stoopies'-the kind you stoop down behind the counter for...
U.S. cigar smokers last week got good news: OPA ordered manufacturers to start making "five-cent" cigars-something the consumer had not seen since last summer. There was the usual slight hitch: the 5? cigar will cost the smoker 7½?. But the 90% of U.S. cigar smokers who ordinarily...