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F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fail on account of market rumours.

Few bankers can claim to have invented strategies such as the "Pac-man defence", where a takeover target tries to buy out its acquirer, or have a book written about a deal they championed; in his case ...