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From: wrs@cmu-cs-wb1.ARPA (Walter Smith)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: West Virginia and #1?
Message-ID: <168@cmu-cs-wb1.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 14:50:29 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 20 14:50:29 1985
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>From afo@pucc-k (Laurie J. Sefton) Fri Feb 15 12:11:42 1985
>This last week, I noticed that an imprint of a map of West Virginia
>with the number 1 had appeared on the top of my can of Shasta *
>diet soda.
>So, what is this?  Is the state of West Virginia launching a
>promotional campaign on the tops of soda cans and bottles?  And why
>on these two brands?  Has Faygo** become a subsidiary of Shasta
>without telling anyone?

West Virginia taxes soft drinks at the rate of one cent per can.  Thus the
symbol is WV with a 1 inside.  I'm not sure who is taxed or what the full
law is.  A lot of the cans here in Pittsburgh have the symbol also.
-- 
      Walter Smith, CS undergraduate, Carnegie-Mellon University
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