Illegal tobacco costing $600m a year
THE illegal tobacco industry, increasingly moving from locally produced tobacco to smuggled cigarettes, is costing the nation $600 million a year in lost revenue, a new study says.....
Marlboro is a cigarettes brand made by Philip Morris USA within the United States, and by Philip Morris International outside the United States. It is famous for its advertisements and magazine ads of the Marlboro Man. Philip Morris created "Marlboro Country" and distilled their manly into the cowboys well known as the "Marlboro Man."
The Marlboro brand is called after Marlborough Street, the location of its original London Factory. The location of the biggest Marlboro cigarette manufacturing is now Richmond, Virginia.
British American Tobacco report: more holes than a sieve
Simon Chapman, professor of public health at the University of Sydney, has been taking a close look at a new report, prepared by Price Waterhouse Coopers for British American Tobacco, and has found it has more holes than a slab of Swiss cheese (or whichever metaphor you prefer).....
Volume declines, charges drag down Reynolds American
CHICAGO – Declining cigarette volume and higher pension expenses dragged Reynolds American Inc.’s fourth-quarter profit down 17%, the tobacco titan said Thursday.....
RJR’s innovation draws interest of FDA
The evolution of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. may be shaped in large part by how well it can live down — and learn from — its past.....
Cigarette tax a bold solution for many S.C. woes
A great deal of debate ensued this week when I announced a proposal to raise South Carolina’s lowest-in-the-nation cigarette tax to the national average, with the proceeds split between health care and education. I remain convinced that this is the right course of action for our state.....
FDA concerned dissolvable tobacco appeals to kids
RICHMOND, Va. — The Food and Drug Administration is saying in letters to two tobacco companies that flavored, dissolvable tobacco products – that the agency compares with candy and says contain a lot of nicotine – could be particularly appealing to kids and young adults. ....
Imperial Hits Back at U.K. Cigarette Packaging Proposal
LONDON—Imperial Tobacco Group PLC said Tuesday it has made a good start to the year despite a weak economic environment and hit out at the U.K. government’s latest proposals to strip cigarette packaging of logos and branding.....
Timothy P. Carney: Tobacco regulations unfolding in Philip Morris’ favor
As President Obama and a credulous media continue to portray the administration’s economy-wide push for more regulation as a frontal attack on industry giants, the current wrangling over tobacco regulation shows how the opposite is true: Heightened government regulation tends to put big business in the driver’s seat, at the expense of the little guys. ....
Reynolds American 4Q profit falls almost 17 pct
Cigarette maker Reynolds American Inc. said Thursday that its fourth-quarter profit fell almost 17 percent as it accounted for restructuring and a drop in the value of its trademarks.....
Reynolds American Inc. CEO Susan Ivey discusses its Pall Mall brand
Tobacco companies’ cigarette shipments fell even faster in 2009 than in earlier years as vendors and consumers adjusted to tax increases including the federal hike of 62 cents per pack that took effect in April.....
