Hints and tips:
...The chief executive of the world’s largest tobacco group Philip Morris International is not short of anecdotes in which he implored people to quit smoking....
...“If I had a buyer who could execute the transactions, yes we would do it — but it doesn’t exist . . . there is no hope . . . So then I’d rather keep this whole thing.”...
...you’d hope)....
...Story in a graphic: IPO activity slows down With all the hoo-ha around high-profile IPOs this year — good and bad — you’d be forgiven for thinking that stock exchanges around the world are jam-packed....
...Despite big tobacco defensiveness and prior outperformance, it is trading at recent historical lows vs the world market, while it continues to be at a significant discount vs wider staples....
...China may understate the impact of COVID-19 on the rest of the world given it was a short, sharp shock and at the time activity across the rest of the world was unaffected....
...A repeal of Australia’s ban would be a victory for the big tobacco groups in a country with the world’s toughest anti-tobacco laws....
...and Green Smoke e-vapor products and Verve oral nicotine products....
...- FT LexTilray: smoke and fire - FT Alphaville...
...Tony Garrett, who has died at the age of 99, hosted a secret summit of the world’s largest tobacco companies to formulate a defensive strategy against the anti-smoking campaigns that were persuading governments...
...to best achieve a smoke-free world and advance the field of tobacco harm reduction”....
...Reynolds Tobacco, Lorillard, and Philip Morris USA intentionally designed cigarettes to make them more addictive". The WHO has poured scorn on Philip Morris' new "Foundation for a Smoke-free World"....
...(FT, Chicago Tribune) Stubbing out smoking Philip Morris pledged $1bn to tackle tobacco smoking by funding the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World....
...An indulgence I would never forgo is my daily box of snus, a soft Swedish tobacco that people chew. It’s my only poison. I don’t smoke; I barely drink; I don’t do drugs....
...Accordingly, Owyang says, if these companies are to save face, they should follow public listing strategies like those deployed by the online craft platform Etsy, which also happens to be a B corporation...
...I used to have a summer job at one of those stores where you’d give me your name and then I’d bring out a large book and I’d magically find your family crest – which you could then order and have shipped...
...It is, he says, “a dynamic shift of world”....
...And I’m not sure I’d want my name hanging from a tag on my bag for the whole world to see....
...But what I was chasing here in North Carolina was not a soundbite but a taste, one I’d never experienced before, and also an idea....
...OK, here are a few more clues. The men wear massive, ornate buckles on their trousers and don’t mind a bit of a stacked heel to go with their business attire. Women smoke big, fat cigars....
...I’d be happy to tuck quite a few of Lapthorne’s stocks away for 5 to 10 years. But Imperial? No. The nation’s fund managers might think of tobacco as a long-term income-generating industry....
...Global oil demand in 2011 was 89.5m b/d....
...Began with a “B”). We’d dropped acid and had sex three or four times with Radiohead’s Kid A on shuffle-repeat....
...In August of 2009, 1.7 myn b/d of the US refinery runs was accountable for the 450 mbpd of net Distillate exports....
...Brand, 71, points out a purple smoke tree that was a gift from the musician Brian Eno, a friend and intellectual sparring partner. A blue heron glides over the marsh....
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