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BUSINESS, Page 49Business NotesTOBACCORequiem for A Stinker
The company had hailed its product as the "most significant
breakthrough in cigarette history." But after seven years of
development at an estimated cost of more than $300 million and five
months of test marketing, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco last week scrapped
its Premier cigarette. Billed as a "cleaner smoke," Premier heated
its tobacco instead of burning it. But the product tasted and
smelled awful to most consumers.
Yet RJR has other innovations to offer the shrinking ranks of
smokers. The company has been working on Chelsea, a vanilla-scented
cigarette designed for women smokers. Test marketing will begin
next month.