Altria Group Inc.’s Philip Morris unit deceived Missouri consumers by marketing Marlboro Lights cigarettes as safer than regular cigarettes, a lawyer told a St. Louis jury. “Philip Morris made two promises — to provide lower tar and nicotine to smokers,” Stephen Swedlow, who represents Missouri smokers suing the company, said today in closing arguments in [...]
The parent company of Philip Morris USA says it’s idling a Virginia manufacturing plant that makes its Marlboro snus smokeless, spit-less tobacco. Altria Group said Wednesday it is moving production from the York County facility to various facilities of its U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Co. subsidiary. The Richmond-based company began testing the product in select markets [...]
Hot dogs, yes your kid’s favorite food, have come under fire by an advocacy group that promotes a vegan diet, preventative medicine and alternatives to animal research. Do hot dogs cause cancer? One advocacy group thinks so. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), based in Washington, D.C., put up a billboard suggesting hot dogs [...]
Almost 60 percent of Mason Haynesworth’s revenue at Chillin Smokes on Franklin Street comes from cigarettes. He’s worried about how an impending town Marlboro cigarette tax of 10 cents per pack — which had been set to begin on Friday — will affect his business. “I’m going to have to pocket it,” he said of [...]
Philip Morris USA (PM USA) said today a jury in Worcester, MA returned a verdict for the defense, holding that Marlboro cigarettes were not defectively designed and unreasonably dangerous. “We believe that the jury appropriately found that Marlboro cigarettes were not defectively designed and unreasonably dangerous” “We believe that the jury appropriately found that Marlboro [...]
This is an annual set of rankings, which shows the value attributed to a specific brand, as determined by Millward Brown’s criteria. Apple’s BrandZ Brand Value rose 84 percent from 2017, to $153.3B. The ranking report added that the Brand Value given for Apple was the same as Peru’s GDP. Meanwhile, Google’s Brand Value didn’t [...]
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