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March 08, 2013 · News

Lonely Planet to be Purchased by Cigarette Tycoon Brad Kelley

Popular Lonely Plant guidebooks, who is owned by the BBC, is being sold by a cigarette billionaire from Kentucky. CNN reported that Brad Kelley sold selling discount cigarette brands such as Bill Durham, USA Gold and Malibu making $1 billion in 2001 and then became one of the largest land owners and conservationists in the United States.

by Lena Vazifdar