22nd Century adds tobacco veteran to management group | Local

22nd Century Team Inc. mentioned Monday that tobacco industry executive veteran John Miller will oversee the manufacturer’s minimized nicotine small business.

22nd Century, dependent in Buffalo, has its cigarette-manufacturing functions in a 62,000-sq.-foot plant in Mocksville in which it has 49 of its 65 staff members.

Miller has much more than 35 decades of practical experience in the tobacco and buyer packaged-merchandise industries, such as most not too long ago as president and chief government of Swisher Global Inc., which helps make cigars and smokeless tobacco solutions.

He also worked for more than 20 a long time in different administration positions at US Smokeless Tobacco Co. by means of its acquisition by Altria Team Inc. in 2009.

Element of Miller’s obligations is overseeing 22nd Century’s pilot sector for its quite-very low nicotine traditional cigarettes in the Chicago space. Its VLN King and VLN Menthol King brand names consist of up to 95% much less nicotine than standard conventional cigarettes.

Chief government James Mish has said the producer has received regulatory clearances to start its quite-lower nicotine tobacco and menthol styled goods in 9 states: California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, Rhode Island and Texas.