Blowing Smoke: Winnebago factory produces more than a billion cigarettes per year

WINNEBAGO, Neb. | A factory on the Winnebago Tribe's reservation, bordering a corn field, churns out products from a much different cash crop.

At its peak, Rock River Manufacturing's 15,000-square-foot plant produces 5,000 cigarettes a minute, or 1.1 billion per year. The latter number is more than enough to circle the planet a few times, plant director Adam Bowen said.

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