Lloyd �Spud� Hughes of Mingo Junction, OH gets the credit for introducing Americans to menthol cool smoking. In September 1925 the Spud Cigarette Corporation, Wheeling, WV was founded. With competition from Brown and Williamson�s menthols Penquin in 1931 and Kool in 1933 the price of SPUD was reduced to 15 cents a pack in 1933. In 1944 Philip Morris bought Axton Fisher Tobacco Company; they continued to manufacture Spud cigarettes for domestic sales until 1963.
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Lloyd �Spud� Hughes of Mingo Junction, OH gets the credit for introducing Americans to menthol cool smoking. In September 1925 the Spud Cigarette Corporation, Wheeling, WV was founded. With competition from Brown and Williamson�s menthols Penquin in 1931 and Kool in 1933 the price of SPUD was reduced to 15 cents a pack in 1933. In 1944 Philip Morris bought Axton Fisher Tobacco Company; they continued to manufacture Spud cigarettes for domestic sales until 1963.
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