U.S. Aided Cigarette Firms in Conquests Across Asia

November 17, 2000 | Glenn Frankel | Washingtonpost.com

Sunday, November 17 1996; Page A01

First of Four Parts

On the streets of Manila, "jump boys" as young as 10 hop in and out of traffic selling Marlboros and Lucky Strikes to passing motorists. In the discos and coffee shops of Seoul, young Koreans light up foreign brands that a decade ago were illegal to possess. Downtown Kiev has become the Ukrainian version of Marlboro Country, with the gray socialist cityscape punctuated with colorful billboards of cowboy sunsets and chiseled faces. And in Beijing, America's biggest tobacco companies are competing for the right to launch cooperative projects with the state-run tobacco monopoly in hopes of capturing a share of the biggest potential market in the world. Continue

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Ammonia key to Marlboro’s success

November 12, 2000 | USAToday.com

November 12, 1999

ST. PAUL, Minn. - They called it "the secret of Marlboro."

R.J. Reynolds was desperate in the mid-1970s to learn why its leading brand, Winston, was losing market share to Philip Morris' Marlboro. So were other tobacco companies that were losing out in a ruthlessly competitive business. Continue

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