Cigarette sales surged again with the introduction of the "White Burley" tobacco leaf and the invention of the first practical cigarette-making machine, sponsored by tobacco baron James Buchanan "Buck" Duke, in the late 1880s.
Ray Story, chief executive of the Tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association, warned that tax rises on e-cigarettes would only benefit tobacco companies, to the detriment of public health.
It helps Reynolds, the second largest U.S. cigarette maker, continue to drive profits as higher- margin smokeless tobacco growth offsets declining cigarette sales.
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The deal, between the big cigarette companies and anti-tobacco lawyers, proposed to end America's 40-year pitched battle over smoking.
To get the dough, the tobacco companies raised cigarette prices substantially.
Ms Fuller's cast is made up of her father, a gruff but gentle tobacco farmer with cigarette ever in hand, her mother, blonde and brittle as an eggshell, and her sister.
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Altria and others are focusing on cigarette alternatives such as cigars, snuff and chewing tobacco for future sales growth because the decline in cigarette smoking is expected to continue.
Bowles said the proposed language does not deal clearly enough with how money from taxes on tobacco or penalties paid by cigarette makers would be used to protect public health.
According to data from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, cigarette shipments declined 4.5% in 2010.
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It's the world's second-biggest cigarette seller behind state-controlled China National Tobacco Corp.
Several years ago, the federal government entered into a Faustian bargain with the tobacco industry and the cigarette makers with the government.
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Within the cigarette business, Altria Group and British American Tobacco have outperformed markets over the last 12 months, while Lorillard has lagged behind.
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Altria said reports that it will acquire UST are a whole lot of hot air, but the cigarette company may soon be dealing in smokeless tobacco as well.
It is the last of the major domestic tobacco companies to enter the electronic cigarette market as part of the industrywide push to diversify beyond the traditional cigarette business.
The party fought tooth and nail to keep Virginia tobacco out of Japan, so that off-budget subsidies could be fed to tobacco-growing farmers from Japan Tobacco, the government-owned cigarette monopoly.
The lawyers were quick to take credit for the sales decline in a statement earlier this year, claiming that by "focusing attention on the conduct of tobacco companies and the dangers of cigarette smoking, " they compelled more people to quit.
His lifetime consumption of tobacco is a single puff on a cigarette, his only alcohol intake a glass of champagne once a year.
Investors have enjoyed a fantastic ride in Big Tobacco stocks, but like a good cigarette (or cigar if you prefer), they will eventually burn out.
Zimbabwean tobacco growers watch in horror as big cigarette firms, worried that their supplies might vanish, help farmers in neighbouring countries to start growing the weed.
British American Tobacco, the UK's biggest cigarette manufacturer, said it had no plans to introduce slow burning cigarettes unless it were proven beyond doubt that the cigarette would self-extinguish.
The case pits a small tobacco company, a wholesaler and a cigarette consumer against the state of Louisiana, accusing it of joining an anticompetitive scheme designed to keep cigarette prices high and competitors out of the market.
The firm, warning of the "considerable cost" involved in an ongoing legal challenge to European Union tobacco controls, said it had, with Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco, drawn up a set of cigarette marketing standards "in recognition of society's concerns".
His previous research, including a paper he wrote opposing cigarette taxes, was funded, in part, by tobacco companies.
Economists predict sharply lower tobacco farm income as a result of the cigarette industry's deal with the attorneys general.
The first soldier died after consuming the opium like chewing tobacco and smoking pieces of it in a cigarette, the documents show.
President Clinton may have felt his own pain, as much as that of the Kentucky tobacco farmers he encountered the day after the cigarette companies balked.
Altria, the US maker of Marlboro, has stayed on the sidelines thus far, but analysts expect the tobacco giant to either acquire an e-cigarette manufacturer or launch its own brand soon.
If the cigarette market goes the same way as hand-rolling tobacco, then increases in duty could actually result in an increase in overall consumption as well as a fall in revenues.
Nevertheless, the tobacco arm continues to gain market share, raising cigarette prices without challenge.
Tobacco companies sponsored game shows and cartoons, and cigarette ads featured endorsements from doctors, dentists and celebrities.
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