Tobacco was 'discovered' by Columbus, along with the New World. Tobacco quickly became popular and spread throughout the world. The eastern seaboard of America was found to be a fertile ground for growing tobacco. Trends changed when chew and loose tobacco were abandoned for the more convenient cigarette. Several entrepreneurs (notably Buck Duke at American Tobacco and Richard Joshua R.J. Reynolds at R.J. R.J. Reynolds) took advantage of the dawning industrial age to market their products to the masses. Buck Duke was so successful at using American Tobacco Company to buyout and vanquish his competitors that he found his mammoth company broken up by anti-trust regulators. The separate companies began competing against each other, and some prominent leaders emerged: RJ R.J. Reynolds, Philip Morris, Lorillard, Brown & Williamson, and American Tobacco Company. These companies battled over.....
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