{{short description|Company}} {{Multiple issues| {{promotional|date=March 2020}} {{More citations needed|date=March 2020}} }} {{Infobox brand | name = Levi Garrett | logo = Levi garrett logo.png | image = | caption = | producttype = Chewing tobacco | currentowner = Reynolds American | producedby = American Snuff Co. | country = <!-- or: origin --> | introduced = {{start date and age|1974}} | discontinued = | related = | markets = | previousowners = | trademarkregistrations = | ambassadors = | tagline = | website = | module = <!-- or: misc --> | module1 = <!-- or: misc1 --> | footnotes = Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1 }} '''Levi Garrett''' is a brand of loose-leaf chewing tobacco produced by the American Snuff Company. Levi Garrett has a noticeably sweet flavour, with a larger cut than America's Best Chew, Beech-Nut, and other brands of loose-leaf chewing tobacco.
== History == thumb|Race car sponsored by Levi Garrett in 1983 The brand Levi Garrett was introduced on the US market in 1974 by Conwood Corporation of Tennessee (later acquired by Dalfort, now called the American Snuff Company<ref>{{cite news|first1=Ford|last1=Worthy|first2=Cynthia|last2=Hutton|title=The Pritzkers Unveiling A Private Family Can you believe it? These billionaires actually like each other. But as Pritzkers proliferate, a worry arises: Can they maintain their striking success – and keep everyone happy?|publisher=CNN Money|date=April 25, 1988|url=https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/04/25/70462/index.htm|accessdate=|via=WayBack Machine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328023515/https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/04/25/70462/index.htm| archive-date=March 28, 2013}}</ref>). By 1981, it was already second in the US chewing tobacco market.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/11/22/business/other-business-for-pipe-smokers-something-to-chew-on.html|title=Other Business; FOR PIPE SMOKERS, SOMETHING TO CHEW ON|last=Danto|first=Jane|date=1981|work=The New York Times|access-date=30 June 2018}}</ref> Levi Garrett became known for their sponsorship of various teams in the then NASCAR Winston Cup Series. Most notably, the Hendrick Motorsports #5 driven by Geoff Bodine and Ricky Rudd.
===Origin of name=== The name ''Levi Garrett'' is derived from an individual named Levi Garrett who lived in the 1800s and was part of the Garrett family, which started the Garrett Snuff Mill in the Garrett Snuff Mills Historic District in Yorklyn, Delaware. A predecessor company to the American Snuff Company was called ''Levi Garrett and Sons.''
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