Old-fashioned cigarette doomed, says world's largest tobacco company

Saturday, December 3rd 2016 - 09:41 UTC

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A historic lawsuit loss to Uruguay over tobacco-related cancer damages and other technological developments have Philip Morris focusing on new alternatives. “I think the time will come when we will have enough acceptance of these alternative products to begin to propose, along with the governments, a gradual elimination of conventional cigars,” the company CEO Andre Calantzopoulos announced. Read full article

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owl61
I would be interested to survey the children (18+ years of age) of the top 10 executives of the largest 3 cigarette companies to see what % smoke cigarettes. Be willing to bet it is very small %.
Dec 03rd, 2016 - 02:21 pm - Link - Report abuse +3
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ChrisR
Despite marking of cigarette cartons and 'shocking' posters over the checkouts in supermarkets there is a large part of the population of seemingly all ages who still smoke cigarettes in Uruguay.

Having 1.4M stinking poor being paid to do nothing puts the numbers up. And the sale of LED TV's.
Dec 03rd, 2016 - 07:26 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
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