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Published 3:11 pm Sunday, October 4, 2015

Lynne Sladky

FILE – In this July 15, 2014, file photo, Natural American Spirit cigarettes are on display for sale, in Doral, Fla. Japan Tobacco is buying the non-U.S. assets of Reynolds American’s Natural American Spirit for about $5 billion in cash, the companies announced, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015. The deal doesn’t include rights to the Natural American Spirit brand name and associated trademarks in the U.S., U.S. duty-free locations, U.S. territories or in U.S. military outlets, all which will be kept by Reynolds American subsidiary Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)””

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