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According to a July 16, 2008 press release by the Harvard School of Public Health, the U.S. tobacco industry, which includes the largest U.S. tobacco company Philip Morris/Altria, is systematically...
The Street (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
In spite of decreasing cigarette sales, this company's headed in the right direction.
Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Stuart J. Shaw submits: PM USA estimates that total cigarette industry volume declined approximately 4% in the first quarter. For the full-year 2008, PM USA estimates a total cigarette industry volume decline of approximately 3%. Complete Story »
Obscene Jester (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Bordering on the most hyped performance I’ve ever prepared to see, Die Soldaten had a lot to live up to last night. The opera, which has been labeled “unstageable,” with an “impossibly complex score,” and “the most ambitious production imaginable,”...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Global merger & acquisition volumes fell 30pc year-on-year in the first half of 2008, with the private equity buyout market hardest hit by the credit crisis, according to new data from Dealogic..
Later On (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
As you expected: The American Association of Public Health Physicians (AAPHP) has published an updated analysis of H.R. 1108, the massive bill currently under consideration by Congress that would give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate tobacco products. AAPHP concludes that “This bill is a scam. It gives the image, but not the [...]
The Street (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
Cramer likes Alliance Resource Partners along with a number of other coal companies.
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
The nation's largest cigarette maker, Altria Group Inc.'s Philip Morris USA, has failed in yet another attempt to sell Americans on a potentially safer cigarette, pulling the plug on Marlboro Ultra Smooth, a version of Marlboro that used a high-technology filter.
WallStreetFighter (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Looking through old cigarettes ads like the one shown is both a hilarious and scary experience. To think an entire generation of people was brainwashed into thinking doctors and medical professionals believed some cigarettes were " good for you ". But apparently Altria's Phillip Morris USA has been trying to market a new cigarette that doesn't kill you as good, or something? According to a Clusterstock...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Altria Group’s Philip Morris division drops its plans for a Marlboro brand cigarette with a high-technology filter after the product failed to catch on with consumers, news reports say.
Weiwen's religion blog (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Our friends at the Wall Street Journal report that Altria (aka Phillip Morris) is trying to develop a safer cigarette amidst a slow decline in US sales. To generate growth, Philip Morris has put effort into engineering reduced-risk products -- so far without much success. Marlboro Ultra Smooth was the product of a top-secret Philip Morris project internally code-named SCOR, or Smoke Constituent Reduction,...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Altria Group Inc's Philip Morris USA has cancelled its Marlboro Ultra Smooth cigarettes, highlighting challenges it faces in trying to grow its tobacco business despite a decline in U.S. cigarette sales, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Altria Group Inc's Philip Morris USA has cancelled its Marlboro Ultra Smooth cigarettes, highlighting challenges it faces in trying to grow its tobacco business despite a decline in U.S. cigarette sales, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Altria's Philip Morris is pulling the plug on Marlboro Ultra Smooth, a failed attempt to sell Americans on a potentially safer cigarette.
