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RJR Nabisco may spin off its tobacco business.

A spokeswoman for the Winston-Salem, N.C., food and tobacco company confirmed that F. Ross Johnson, the company’s president and chief executive, told financial analysts that profits from the tobacco business were smaller than those generated by food. Johnson said the company was considering a spinoff of the unit into a limited partnership, but he declined to give details of the proposals under study.

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