ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, April 3, 1990                   TAG: 9004030569
SECTION: BUSINESS                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: EVENING 
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BRIEFLY . . .

General Motors Corp. president and chief operating officer Robert C. Stempel was named today to succeed the retiring Roger B. Smith as chairman.

\ Cigarette use in the United States fell 5 percent last year, the largest decline in six years, the Agriculture Department said Monday.



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