Businessman aims to make Brodhead a ‘Tobacco Town’

By Ryan Broege, Correspondent

Saif Murtahda started to see so many customers make the drive from Brodhead and beyond to his tobacco store in Monroe, Roll-a-Smoke, that he figured there was a niche to fill in eastern Green County.

He obtained a storefront on a main thoroughfare, hung some cigarette price posters in the windows, and opened up Tobacco Town on May 12. The shop is located in the former Southside Beverage on First Center Avenue.

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