Interview with Luther B. Pittman, February 5, 1988

Interview Summary

Daviess County, Owensboro, personal background, Executive Vice President of Pinkerton Tobacco Company, history of Pinkerton, reason for locating headquarters in Owensboro, Swedish Tobacco, competitors, research on new products, smokeless tobacco market, health concerns about snuff, major markets for looseleaf tobacco, plug tobacco lines and use of local tobacco, major plug tobacco competitors, types of plub tobacco, qualities of the tobaccos, use of dealers to buy tobacco, use of casings in products, origin of the term "plug" tobacco, new products, quality control measures, pipe tobacco and roll-your-own, local manufacturers that rely on Pinkerton, working environoment at Pinkerton

Interview Keyword

Heritage farms

Interview LC Subject

Agriculture--Kentucky Agriculture. Amish farmers Burley tobacco Conwood Sales Company Family farms Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company New products Pinkerton Tobacco Company R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Smokeless tobacco Snuff Swedish Tobacco Group Tobacco chewing Tobacco industry Tobacco workers Tobacco--Health aspects Tobacco--Kentucky Tobacco--Varieties Unger, Klaus, 1934-

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