Thursday, September 30, 2010

It's not your usual tobacco plant


(Richmond Times-Dispatch) The Marlboro label is familiar, but what's coming off the production line at a factory near Busch Gardens is not your typical tobacco product.
In a former Philip Morris cigarette-equipment repair plant, the nation's top tobacco company is now making something called Marlboro snus, one of the newer entries in a growing array of alternative tobacco products.
Snus -- the word rhymes with "juice" -- is an oral, but spitless, pouch tobacco. Continued

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