Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris | Teaching Key Figures

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Buck Duke - This character started working at Duke tobacco after the Civil War and quickly began running the company. This character then moved the company toward manufacturing cigarettes in 1881.

Richard Joshua Reynolds - This character built a plug tobacco company in North Carolina, which was successful on a regional level before moving onto the national scene. This character built a modern plant in 1889, which was the largest plug tobacco facility in the world at the time, and was very successful at selling flavored versions of his product.

Joseph Cullman III...
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