Competition is also arriving from the U.S. Phillip Morris recently signed a deal to sell its cigarettes inside the country.

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Philip Morris, will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and could decrease the ability of juries to award punitive damages.

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Philip Morris International sells Marlboro and other cigarette brands outside of the U.S., so its results reflect smoking trends abroad.

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Comprising some 130 works by Burne-Jones, Hunt, John Everett Millais, Morris, Rossetti and others of their circle, this is the first major U.S. retrospective of the well-beloved but highly debated legacy of 19th-century British art.

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