The era in which Vice President Thomas Marshall proclaimed a good five-cent cigar a national necessity brought the U.S. cigar industry its greatest success: the 8,500,000 stogies sold in 1920 still ...
Tucked between the new high-speed cigarette-makers and pack-loaders in Philip Morris USA's giant South Richmond plant, there now are lots of head-high, Plexiglas-walled boxes. Inside, robot-arms load ...