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Lorillard asks users to help fight menthol ban 

Lorillard Inc., the maker of the top-selling menthol cigarette in the U.S., is enlisting its customers' help in defeating a proposal supported by former health officials to include menthol in a ban of flavored tobacco.

The company, based in Greensboro, N.C., sent e-mail to smokers of its Newport cigarette, urging them to speak out against efforts to add menthol to a list of flavors that would be banned under legislation to regulate the $89 billion-a-year U.S. tobacco industry, spokesman Michael W. Robinson said yesterday.

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