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What The Reynolds/Lorillard Merger Says About Tobacco In North Carolina

WUNC | By Will Michaels,
Frank Stasio
Published January 13, 2015 at 11:59 AM EST
One of Reynolds' most lucrative acquisitions is Newport cigarettes, Lorillard's best-selling brand.
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One of Reynolds' most lucrative acquisitions is Newport cigarettes, Lorillard's best-selling brand.
One of Reynolds' most lucrative acquisitions is Newport cigarettes, Lorillard's best-selling brand.
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One of Reynolds' most lucrative acquisitions is Newport cigarettes, Lorillard's best-selling brand.

Reynolds American and the Lorillard Tobacco merger

Reynolds American and the Lorillard Tobacco Company are expected to approve a $27.4 billion buyout at shareholders' meetings later this month. The move is part of a new generation of smoking where rolled cigarettes are giving way to e-cigarettes, raising the question of whether tobacco will actually be a part of Tobacco Road in the future. Host Frank Stasio talks with Richard Craver, reporter for the Winston-Salem Journal, and Andrew Brod, economics professor at UNC-Greensboro, about the evolution of the tobacco industry in North Carolina.

  

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Will Michaels
Will Michaels started his professional radio career at WUNC.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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