Category: Industry

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A November 20th 1960 ad from the New York Mirror magazine. Courtesy of the collection of Joe B. Tye and STAT (Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco).

“The Greatest Health Protection in Cigarette History!”

WEST GROTON, MA.-By the time he was 40, Milton Wheeler was too short of breath to fix the kids’ mini-bikes or play a round of golf. He had to give up his career as a policeman–and his dream of becoming chief–there being no place for

Researchers placed a lit cigarette on an upholstered chair to show how dangerously long a cigarette can smolder before igniting a smoky fire.

Making A Fire-Safe Cigarette

Not long after saying good night to the last dinner guest, the Mitchell family was dead. Billie Mitchell, 33, was a non-smoker-, his wife Kathi, 27, smoked occasionally. A guest may have dropped the cigarette, or maybe it spilled from an ashtray into a crack

Cigarette Production at R.J. Reynolds Tobaccor USA's manufacturing center in Tobaccoville, N.C.

The Second Wave of Tobacco Litigation

Cigarette companies boast of never losing a verdict or paying a penny to settle any of nearly 300 lawsuits filed against them since the 1950s on behalf of dead or dying smokers. Many other producers of unsafe products have not fared so well. Heavy losses

Over 2,225 adult salmon died last fall in Seattle’s Duwamish River. The carcasses remained untouched by birds for 20 hours, the first clue toxic chemicals were involved.

The Struggle to Survive

SEATTLE–It was a disaster. The banks of Seattle’s Duwamish River were covered with carcasses of adult salmon returning to spawn. Jaws open, eyes intact, thousands of dead fish had been in the mud for twenty hours undisturbed by the myriad of birds which, under normal

Personality strengths and weaknesses greatly influence decision making in the American pulp and paper/forest products industry. Two key decision-makers are Charles W. Schmidt (L.), senior vice president, Raytheon Corp; and Taggart Edwards (R.), executive vice president, Champion International Corp.

Calling the Shots

Balancing potential human health hazards versus herbicide spraying, bartering long-term forest improvement for needed short-term profits, gambling on untested energy systems–all are complex decisions that reflect the philosophies and styles of the forest industry executives who make them. In 1979, St. Regis Paper Company banned