I dont know the answer.
However, Plank and Wagner are on very few tobacco cards -- I believe Plank is only on T206, T204, and T216 (which may have pirated images), and Wagner is only on T206 and and T216; not including Fatima team cards and noting the T206 examples are extremely rare for both. Yet both are readily found on E (and other non-tobacco) cards/issues. This seems to indicate an issue with tobacco specifically and not wanting to endorse it and/or promote it to children, who were the ones most often looking for and collecting the "pictures of baseball men".
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