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Altria (MO) gets a boost from lenient cigarrette legislation
Altria shares are trading higher today, getting a boost from news that menthol is getting special protection in a new bill as Congress attempts to regulate the tobacco industry.
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Philip Morris International Is Offering $6 Billion of Bonds, Person Says
Philip Morris International Inc. is marketing $6 billion of debt due in 5, 10 and 30 years in the tobacco company's first bond offering since being spun off in March by Altria Group Inc ., according to a person ...
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Tobacco company Swedish Match names new chief executive, chief of finance
STOCKHOLM, Sweden : Swedish tobacco company Swedish Match AB on Tuesday named Lars Dahlgren as its new president and chief executive.
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Swedish Match AB appoints new CEO and CFO
... job as CFO of Swedish Match, and has during his years with the Company gained extensive experience from the tobacco industry and the Company, including its markets, competitors and consumers as well as the investor community. Lars knows the ...
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Universal healthcare the wrong prescription
Posted: May 12th, 2008 by Steve Trinward Author: Brian Schwartz "'Universal healthcare' is false advertising for politically controlled medicine, with government as the 'single payer' insurer.
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Court rejects appeal in tobacco settlement case
The Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday by a California smoker who alleged the multibillion dollar tobacco settlement between 46 states and the four major cigarette companies was anticompetitive and ...
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Court rebuffs smoker on tobacco prices
The U.S. Supreme Court turned away an appeal from a California smoker who blamed rising cigarette prices on the $206 billion settlement reached a decade ago between 46 states and the nation's largest tobacco ...
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Rothmans Inc. Announces Fourth Quarter and Year Ended March 31, 2008 Conference Call and Webcast
Trading: TSX: ROC TORONTO, May 12 /CNW/ - Rothmans Inc. invites analysts and portfolio managers to participate in a conference call with management to discuss the results of the fourth quarter and fiscal year ...
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Star Scientific Files Financial Report on First Quarter
... were made in connection with the national launch of the company ' s Stonewall Natural blend dissolvable smokeless tobacco product. The company reported an operating loss of $5.4 million for the first quarter 2008 compared with $3.6 million for the ...
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Public relations, press release distribution, investor relations, SEC filing
Rewards Network Inc. , a leading provider of marketing services and frequent dining programs to the restaurant industry, today announced that its Board of - 05/12/2008 - 04:30 PM ST.
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Centerra Gold Comments on Media Reports Regarding Kumtor
Centerra Gold Inc. reported that according to press reports today the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic has issued an order to the Government suspending certain of the Company's agreements and licenses in ...
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Onsites Now Half Of Peak Number
... that, when necessary, calls can be transferred from onsite locations to call centers and vice versa. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco, which has a 55 percent online adoption rate, also is constantly evaluating its service configuration. It shrunk its onsite ...
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Vector Group Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results
... at www.vcall.com for 30 days. Vector Group is a holding company that indirectly owns Liggett Group LLC, Vector Tobacco Inc. and New Valley LLC. Additional information concerning the company is available on the company ' s website, ...
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Hoyer's and Rockefeller's Strange Corporate Bedfellow
... 2001 that the organization's main contributors were corporations such as Philip Morris, ExxonMobil and RJ Reynolds Tobacco. [38] At the time, Frontiers of Freedom lobbied heavily against environmental regulations designed to reduce global warming, ...
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... "and was instrumental in creating the Ramhurst Corporation which received funds from R.J. Reynolds "to ensure that tobacco industry efforts in Washington were supported by and coordinated with RJR's nation-wide fake grassroots operations in 1993." [ ...
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State urges end to tobacco Web sales
... Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is butting heads with Stamford-based UST Inc. Blumenthal wants Congress to add tobacco to the list of items banned from mail delivery, a step he claims would effectively block Internet sales of cigarettes to ...
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... that the management isn't just talking, they're actually placing money in their own porn. My next candidate is a tobacco company, Vector Group Ltd. Ticker symbol: VGR. As I'm writing this the stock is trading around $17.43 with a 9.3% dividend. 9.3% ...
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1964 Ford Galaxie 500 Rocket Car
... Showboat dragster in its dust with a 9.36 elapsed time at 168 mph on Sept.19, 1966, at Tampa Dragway. Built by tobacco heir Zachary Reynolds of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco fame, the "Tobacco King" 1964 Ford Galaxie was as wild an example of a Rocket Drag ...
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Andy Ostmeyer: Too much information can breed cynical voters
... Why is that important? Altria was the parent company of Philip Morris, among others, which is one of the largest tobacco companies in the world. It's worth knowing, every time Roy Blunt casts a vote on health care and tobacco regulation and ...
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U.S. Stocks Socked By Credit Crisis; Indexes Down On Week
You know that buying a stock makes you part owner of a company, theoretically with millions of other people.
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