re: Do you know anybody who works for a Tobacco company or in the industry?

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I mean, she isn't going around trying to sell it, just making sure her region has what it needs. Tobacco companies don't really NEED salesmen

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That's what their sales people do.

Indirect Sales manager.

It’s highly regional. Phillip Morris had manufacturing here in Louisville until the early 00s.

I worked with someone 20 years ago who is now the CEO of a tobacco company. They lost their job when I worked with them because they were lying (a lot) on their travel and entertainment expense reimbursements.

A long time ago, when I was a newly minted attorney, I was counsel at a tobacco jury trial where Jeffrey Wigand (Russel Crowe's character) testified. I wrote his cross examination outline, though a more senior attorney performed the cross.

Much of The Insider is wild hyperbole.

I used to, but not anymore.

Grandfather and uncle grew tobacco, went to hs w lots of ppl that farmed. I worked harvesting tobacco for 6 yrs in 80s. Great monet, paid for college before I even got to campus.
Govt bought out farmers in Ontario in 90s, farming almost died off. First nations now make cigarettes on reserves and need tobacco. So industry is reborn, not the money there was before but farmers are doing ok. I never smoked, my parents both did but quit in their 50s. I have mixed feelings on tobacco, my dad's side of family came from western NC and have grown tobacco since the 1800s. None farming now though

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I dunno what that position is called. She wasn't like delivery, had to dress nicely for work every day, had a company vehicle, and basically drove all day long.

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Probably sales rep or something. I have a friend who worked for Gillette and pretty much did the same thing. He had a region on Southwest Louisiana and had to go to places, mostly walmarts, that sold Gillette products.

Sometimes he would have to go to a location and do promos were he just handed out free shite for 2 hrs. He would drive 3 hrs to do a 2hr promo then drive back.. 8 hrs of work, 6 of them on the road.

He liked what he was doing, but they were changing how they do the sales and wanted him to move to KC. But they paid for a vehicle, cell phone, etc..

FIL used to farm it and I have had the privilege of being in on some the field work and harvest process here in central Ky. Not too many folks grow it around here anymore, at least not like 20 years ago.

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