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Phillip Morris makes such brands as Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Chesterfield and Basic.
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When it comes to kicking the cigarette habit, the United States certainly has come a long way, baby, to borrow the old Virginia Slims tagline.
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But he also blames targeted promotions by tobacco companies (like Virginia Slims targeting women in the 1970s and other brands targeting inner-city minority groups today) and the movies.
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That leaves it focused on the U.S. tobacco market, where it controls 49% of the retail cigarette market with its Marlboro, Virginia Slims, and Parliament brands, and 54.5% of the much smaller smokeless tobacco market with its Skoal and Copenhagen brands.
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