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[4] Skoal Bandits were invented by UST's marketing division, the manufacturing process was conceived by Gene Paules of UST, and the process was automated by David Westerman of the Automation Center, Inc., Nashville, Tennessee

They spent 75 hours learning how to tell the difference between tobacco (which can smell of green pepper, sweetcorn, violet, saffron, or rotted dry wood) and flavor additives (more likely to be fruity, minty, or redolent of vanilla or marzipan), before being set to work sniffing the tobacco in question

The union has delayed implementing the test, asking for more scientific data to prove it is reliable

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