The US’ Truth Initiative says that the consequences of the tobacco industry’s targeting vulnerable groups are horrendous, ‘killing more than 540,000 people each year’.Read More
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In announcing a dividend increase yesterday, Altria said it reflected its intention ‘to return a large amount of cash to shareholders in the form of dividends’.Read More
A call for the US Food and Drug Administration to replicate the IQOS science submitted to the agency would be unreasonable only if it caused delays in getting this product to market. Read More
Murray Garnick, executive vice president and general counsel, law and regulatory affairs, will be one of two Altria representatives at a business presentation next month. Read More
Andre Calantzopoulos, the chief executive of Philip Morris International, says that recent proposals by the US Food and Drug Administration invite dialogue rather than litigation.Read More
The US Food and Drug Administration is being urged to ban the sales of menthol cigarettes, a move that would have a profound effect on the US market.Read More
The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids has described allegations about British American Tobacco’s conduct as alarming, given the merger of BAT and Reynolds American in the US.Read More
If we believe that teenagers who see smoking scenes in movies will start to smoke, why are we seemingly happy to let them see scenes where people inflict horrific levels of violence on each other?Read More
It would be interesting to study what will be the reaction of social smokers to a new study suggesting that social- and regular-smokers share the same risk of developing heart-disease precursors. Read More
A ‘smoking-cessation tax’ that would have raised about $225 million, but only $1 million of which would have been spent on smoking cessation, has been ruled unconstitutional in the US.Read More