Well, it turns out that the study was partly funded by a tobacco company.
Reynolds, a tobacco company, is defiantly keeping information about its legal costs from the SEC.
Mr Isla, a former co-chairman of Altadis, a Franco-Spanish tobacco company, is not a fashion man.
The tobacco company name and brand variant are allowed in small print at the bottom of the pack.
If Targacept's drugs are approved, they'll be the best things ever to come out of a tobacco company.
But anti-smoking activists said some countries were putting tobacco company interests before health.
Significantly, Philip Morris, the world's largest tobacco company, has said the provisions regarding illicit trade ought to be strengthened.
But even if you could start a new tobacco company, why would you?
Reynolds Tobacco Company (which eventually became a wholly owned subsidiary of Reynolds American, Inc.) and invented the packaged cigarette.
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The Holy Grail: In 1909 Honus Wagner discovered that the American Tobacco Company had issued this baseball card without his permission.
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Then there's ITC, the leading tobacco company with a 67% market share.
Sponsorship of the gigs by a tobacco company didn't help much either.
The government is facing a claim by Philip Morris, a tobacco company, at a tribunal in Singapore over a law standardising cigarette packaging.
To be safe, Philip Morris aims to change its corporate name to Altria to show the public that it's more than a tobacco company.
One other quirk of the bonds: The tobacco settlement revenues needed to service them are not fixed but linked to tobacco company shipment volumes.
In 2001 British tobacco company Gallaher Group bought Austria Tabak, at one time Austria's government-run tobacco monopoly, and decided to shrink the company's museum.
But while Intel is not a tobacco company, it most certainly is a tobacco stock, or at least it shares many of their characteristics.
Ironically, tobacco-chewing Wagner forced the tobacco company to pull his image from the card because he did not believe in promoting cigarettes to children.
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He is a powerful businessman with controlling stakes in dozens of companies, including a bank, Paraguay's largest tobacco company and a variety of agricultural businesses.
Lorillard, the third largest U.S. tobacco company and leading maker of menthol and premium cigarettes, continues to gain market share for its leading brand, Newport.
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Reynolds (RJR), a tobacco company that was the city's largest employer.
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The card is in short supply because Wagner made the American Tobacco Company recall it when he discovered it had made the card without his permission.
Philip Morris, which bought Portugal's Tabaqueira when it was privatised in 1996 and Serbia's state-owned tobacco company last year, recently completed the acquisition of Greece's Papastratos.
Mr Cartes said he relinquished the control of his enterprises, including a bank, Paraguay's largest tobacco company and a variety of agricultural businesses, to his sister, Sarah.
As the largest tobacco company in the U.S. with leading brands, its strong pricing power and product mix continue to be the key sources of value creation.
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The 1909 card, manufactured by The American Tobacco Company, owes its value to the Pittsburgh Pirate himself who was arguably the greatest shortstop in baseball history.
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All tobacco company logos and colours were banned from packets.
Given the legal and political risk and the size and scale needed to deal with both, it would be next to impossible to start a new tobacco company now.
Japan Tobacco, which ranks at No. 312 on Forbes list of the world's 2, 000 largest public companies, is already the third-largest tobacco company, behind Philip Morris and British American Tobacco (BAT).
Reynolds Tobacco Company in a commercial speech case filed by the Federal Trade Commission which challenged their use of the cartoon character, Joe Camel, as an unfair trade practice to target children with the fun-loving character.
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