Talk:Red Man

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Did You Know An entry from Red Man appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 18 July 2006.
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  1. Cutting out the various pouch/variety descriptions makes sense, because the company is trying to parlay its leadership position into diversification to gather up more market share. If we try to cover that, we're going to have to edit a great deal to keep up with every product launch and product retirement.
  2. Cutting out the leaf vs. plug distinction, on the other hand, bothers me. In 1910, chewing tobacco was plug/twist tobacco that a man cut off with his pocket knife. Red Man distinguished itself for being shredded leaf. It led the market and the twist/plug forms died out gradually, leaving Red Man as the #1 type of non-snuff oral tobacco. They are now (well, a few years back, actually) introducing other forms, but I think it's important for the article to leave in place some indication that the brand was different from the others, early on, by being pouch tobacco. Geogre 09:57, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

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  • ^ a b c "Chewing Tobacco Just the Facts", National Institutes of Cancer. Retrieved on 2006-07-18.

is a 404 now. I couldn't find a copy of the article in google or on the page itself (which also uses google as its search engine). As I'm unsure what to do with it now, I just left a comment here. --84.171.15.229 17:54, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

I'll see if I can find an equivalent source, as that's really all we need, but I wonder if this could be another victim of web pruning. I hope not, can't imagine so, as the NIC shouldn't be under any pressure. The information in question is relatively easy to find, and I would imagine that someone has copied the content, so it shouldn't be a difficult search. Geogre 11:17, 25 October 2007 (UTC)