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On Factory Tours.

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I have a core memory of touring a Phillip Morris cigarette factory when I was a kid. My mom and I rode around the massive plant, thick with the sweet smell of tobacco, on a tram that would not have been out of place at Universal Studios. The factory produced

I have a core memory of touring a Phillip Morris cigarette factory when I was a kid. My mom and I rode around the massive plant, thick with the sweet smell of tobacco, on a tram that would not have been out of place at Universal Studios. The factory produced millions and millions of cigarettes daily, combining filters, wrapping paper, and tobacco at unimaginable scale. Strangely, its web of mainframe-looking machines were spread over an expansive parquet floor. Even as an elementary school student, I recall thinking this was a strange architectural detail that didn’t fit with the industrial ac

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