A familiar site for many driving down rural roads in West Virginia is the name Mail Pouch Tobacco painted on barns and bridges What is Mail Pouch Tobacco? And why is it painted in odd places

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A familiar site for many driving down rural roads in West Virginia is the name Mail Pouch Tobacco painted on barns and bridges What is Mail Pouch Tobacco? And why is it painted in odd places

WEST VIRGINIA -- A familiar site for many driving down rural roads in West Virginia is the name Mail Pouch Tobacco painted on barns and bridges. What is Mail Pouch Tobacco? And why is it painted in odd places such as these? Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco, according to e-WV, the West Virginia encyclopedia, is considered West Virginia's most famous consumer product. Brothers Samuel and Aaron Bloch started the company in Wheeling. The brothers started…