9 today. The letter was signed by Cheryl Healton of the American Legacy Foundation, a group set up after the 1998 settlement between the states and the tobacco industry
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J." Reynolds sold his shares of his father's company in Patrick County, Virginia, and ventured to the nearest town with a railroad connection, Winston-Salem, to start his own tobacco company