US company R.J. Reynolds Tobacco (RJR) , based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is the fourth-largest tobacco firm in the global tobacco industry, and the second-largest U.S. firm (behind Philip Morris). During the 1980's and 1990's, the firm was part of a corporation called RJR Nabisco, but Nabisco was spun out of RJR Nabisco in 1999 in part due to pressure from tobacoo related lawsuits.
Their most well-known brand is Camel cigarettes, which was criticized for its use of the Joe Camel character. Winston, Salem, and Doral are also R.J. Reynolds brands.
In October 2002 the European Union accused R.J. Reynolds of selling black market cigarettes to drug traffickers and mobsters from Italy, Russia, Colombia and the Balkans.
RJR is publicly traded, under the NYSE symbol "RJR".
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