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<text id=91TT1899>
<title>
Aug. 26, 1991: Business Notes:Marketing
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Aug. 26, 1991 Science Under Siege
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 42
Business Notes
MARKETING
Rolling Papers Come Unstuck
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<p> Time was when every cigarette in America was handmade by
smokers themselves, who lovingly swathed dollops of tobacco
inside their favorite rolling papers. Today the practice has
become linked in the public mind with a different kind of weed,
marijuana. In an era of abstinence, that connection is proving
hazardous for the makers of rolling papers. Last week the K Mart
chain said it would no longer sell rolling papers unaccompanied
by tobacco.
</p>
<p> K Mart, the second largest U.S. retailer, insists that it
had been considering pulling the papers because of declining
consumer demand. Still, K Mart faced pressure from an
Arkansas-based group called Doing in God's Name Incredible
Things Yourself, or D.I.G.N.I.T.Y. The group's national profile
has increased dramatically since Dick Gregory, the social
activist and health guru, joined its antidrug crusading.
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</body></article>
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