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Article: Tobacco Company Tests 21st Century Vending Machines That Solve an Age-Old Problem.
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- PR Newswire
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- August 6, 2002
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Ensuring that only adults gain access to cigarette vending machines may be getting a lot easier -- and a lot more entertaining -- if a pilot test of high-tech, interactive vending machines by Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation proves successful.
Nightclubs and other adult-oriented venues in Cleveland and Los Angeles are the first to test the new machines developed by the nation's third largest tobacco company and Marconi Online Systems.
"We've developed a 21st Century solution to an age-old problem," said Todd Hanke, manager of e-business for the maker of KOOL, Pall Mall and Lucky Strike cigarettes.
According to Hanke, ...