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United States Tobacco Company

(Producers of Copenhagen/Skoal chewing tobacco) Producers of chewing tobacco

United States Tobacco Company ( "UST" or "USTC") is a subsidiary of UST Inc. (J. Nelson Aff. 6/21/94; Allman complaint). United States Tobacco Company is a Delaware corporation (J. Nelson Aff. 6/21/94). UST Inc. is a holding company which owns 100% of the stock of United States Tobacco Company (J. Nelson Aff. 6/21/94). In June 1986, Oklahoma City, OK, jury returned 6-0 verdict for U.S. Tobacco in Marsee v. U.S. Tobacco case, after six hours of deliberations. The jury found insufficient proof to link 19-year-old Sean Marsee's death from tongue cancer to his use of Copenhagen snuff/chewing tobacco. (Jenkins, p. 173.) Once manufactured King Santo? cigarette (D. Daynard 4/18/94). Parent is USTE? circa 1994, UST has 85% of the market (BW 5/16/94). UST Inc. and United States Tobacco Company are being represented by Christovich & Kearney (attorney Charles W. Schmidt III) in the Castano suit (C. Schmidt LT 5/25/94). UST's board authorized repurchase of 40 million common shares beginning 1/1/90 -- as of 6/90, 36 million common shares had been repurchased under the plan. The board authorized the company to repurchase up to 20 million additional common shares in 6/94 (DJ 6/22/94). The Lotus Project was UST's effort to develop snuff in a kind of bag similar to a tea bag. The little bags were later produced and called Skoal Bandits. In a memo of a meeting in the office of the president of UST, the target market for Skoal Bandits is people 15 to 35 years old (L. White, Merchants 1988). A UST consumer-marketing representative wrote a report complaining that many retailers had begun to refuse to sell snuff to minors: "A lot of our consumers are under 18 and have been smokeless tobacco users for years and now they are being turned down." (L. White, Merchants 1988). Manufacturer of moist snuff, including: Copenhagen; Happy Days; Skoal (Skoal Wintergreen Long Cut, Skoal Long Cut Straight, Skoal Bandit) (E. Whelan 1984; Allman complaint). UST Inc. and United States Tobacco Company have manufactured, advertised and sold Sano cigarettes in the U.S. (Allman complaint).