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Japan Tobacco Targets Smoker-Heavy Zones As Rivals Go High-Tech

While most tobacco companies have embraced smokeless products to survive ever-tightening controls, the Japanese maker of Winston and Camel cigarettes is pr...

A Nice American Cigarette Break For Japan Tobacco: Gadfly

Japan Tobacco Inc., the world No. 4, reported a fourth straight quarter of declining cigarette volumes Wednesday as shipments fell pretty much everywhere i...

Tobacco Tax U-Turn Burns $7 Billion Hole In ITC's Market Cap

ITC Ltd., Asia’s second-largest cigarette maker by value, plunged the most in 25 years after India surprised investors by raising levies on tobacco p...

Cigarette Market To Record $7.7 Billion Loss By 2021

The global cigarette market is set to record a $7.7 billion loss by 2021, according to market research provider Euromonitor International. The new data...

Reynolds Said To Reject BAT’s $47 Billion Acquisition Proposal

Reynolds American Inc., the second-largest cigarette seller in the U.S., is seeking a higher price from British American Tobacco Plc after rejecting a $47...

In Marlboro Country, A Big-Money Race For The New Smoke

You want a trip to Philip Morris International Inc. to feel like a visit to Marlboro Country. But the company’s Swiss research center, aka the Cube,...

Tobacco Firm Reynolds Taps Crew As CEO In Rare Woman-To-Woman Succession

Reynolds American Inc.’s Debra Crew, the head of its largest unit, will succeed Susan Cameron as chief executive officer next year, making Reynolds o...

BAT to Cut 950 Jobs At German Cigarette Factory To Reduce Costs

British American Tobacco Plc, the maker of Lucky Strike cigarettes, is eliminating 950 jobs at a German factory as it moves to cut costs amid a decline in...