Business: They Like It

Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it. It satisfies no normal need. I like it. It makes you thin, it makes you lean, It takes the hair right off your bean. It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen. I like it.

—G. L. Hemminger, 1915

Despite continuing reports that cigarettes are the worst darn things, tobacco-men in 1958 scored their "biggest peacetime advance in 20 years." So last week in Printers' Ink wrote Consultant Harry M. Wootten, the man who knows the tobacco industry best. Sales last year, said Wootten, soared about 9% to top $4 billion; profits rose 11%...

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