Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company
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axton-fisher-tobacco-company-261-16987038
title:
Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company
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Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company, founded in 1903, was a Louisville, Kentucky-based manufacturer of cigarettes that played a key role in popularizing menthol cigarettes, with its Spud brand. It was acquired by Philip Morris Companies Inc. in 1944. Menthol cigarettes were first developed by Lloyd "Spud" Hughes of Mingo Junction, Ohio, in 1924, though the idea did not become popular until the Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. acquired the patent in 1927, marketing them nationwide as "Spud Menthol Cooled Cigare
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Former Kentucky-based manufacturer of cigarettes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axton-Fisher_Tobacco_Company
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2024-04-16T07:42:14Z
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