Jump to full article: The Independent (uk), 2006-04-26
Author: Stephen Foley in New York
Intro: The creep of smoking bans across the Western world has prompted British American Tobacco's US subsidiary to splash out $3.5bn (£2bn) on a business that looks like reviving: the manufacture of chewing tobacco.
Once the preserve of baseball players and the rural poor, chewing tobacco appears once again to be taking off, with one federal government estimate suggesting one in five high-school boys are using it.
And yesterday, Reynolds American - the joint venture created through the merger of BAT's US business and RJ Reynolds in 2004 - said it would buy the privately owned Conwood smokeless tobacco group.
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