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The Motley Fool February 22, 2008 Selena Maranjian	Smoking Around the World What if hundreds of millions of people around the world quit smoking?
The Motley Fool July 20, 2004 Alyce Lomax	The Marlboro Paradox Despite what can be seen as a downright difficult climate for its core offering, sinful tobacco, Altria Group, the name behind cigarette brands such as Marlboro, reported a 7.8% improvement in its second-quarter net earnings.
The Motley Fool January 29, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Altria Is Smokin' Philip Morris and Kraft's parent company releases stellar numbers for 2003.
The Motley Fool November 10, 2009 Colleen Paulson	Altria's Not Tobacco's Only Altruist Reynolds American may purchase a quit-smoking company.
The Motley Fool April 27, 2004 Seth Jayson	R.J. Reynolds Goes Light Cost-cutting yields a 70% improvement in the shareholders' bottom line.
The Motley Fool December 21, 2004 Chris Mallon	End of the Legal Tunnel An improving legal environment makes Altria's shares look extremely undervalued.
BusinessWeek June 27, 2005 Nanette Byrnes	Smart Moves for Stopping Smoking Office bans against lighting up, higher taxes, and adult-focused antitobacco ads work well. But the tobacco industry's political power remains strong.
The Motley Fool April 30, 2004	Investments Up in Smoke Smoking isn't just bad for your health, it costs you a lot of money too. How much could you save if you quit?
The Motley Fool July 18, 2011 Jim Royal	Big Tobacco Faces Another Huge Headwind More packaging changes could dent these players' profits.
The Motley Fool January 2, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Philip Morris Cuts Prices Will the cigarette maker's price cuts for wholesalers help boost profits?
The Motley Fool January 14, 2011 Colleen Paulson	Can Smoking Growth Continue in 2011? Tobacco stocks outperformed the S&P in 2010; will trend continue in 2011?
The Motley Fool October 27, 2011 Jim Royal	I Can't Quit You, Big Tobacco Big Tobacco is being hit by challenges across the spectrum -- lawsuits, declining smoking rates, and new packaging rules -- but some companies have been able to claim victories of a sort.
The Motley Fool January 14, 2004 Selena Maranjian	Quit Smoking, Get Rich Don't let thousands go up in smoke.
The Motley Fool June 9, 2011 Neha Chamaria	How Big Tobacco's Trying to Regain Lost Ground in the U.S. Reynolds counters expanded smoking bans with its Camel Snus campaign.
The Motley Fool June 15, 2009 Colleen Paulson	Is This Sector Going Up in Smoke? The combination of increased taxes and FDA regulation of tobacco products certainly won't help the industry's future growth prospects in the United States.
The Motley Fool August 6, 2009 Colleen Paulson	The Military's Fightin' the (Marlboro) Man The Pentagon has recently completed a study arguing that tobacco use should be banned in the military and sales prohibited on government-owned property. It's clear that Altria, Reynolds American, and Lorillard have their work cut out for them.
The Motley Fool May 27, 2011 Jim Royal	Big Tobacco's Been Busy Look at these recent acquisitions by British American Tobacco and Philip Morris.
HBS Working Knowledge April 23, 2014 Michael Blanding	Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard? A new case study by John Quelch charts the growing popularity of electronic cigarettes and how tobacco companies and regulators are responding.
The Motley Fool April 1, 2009 Ivan Martchev	Which Sin Stocks Will Survive? Some sin stocks have collapsed in the recession, but others still hold promise.
BusinessWeek September 11, 2006 Nanette Byrnes	Big Tobacco's Showdown In The West California is about to add $2.60 in tax per pack of smokes.
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The Motley Fool March 26, 2004 Chris Mallon	Is Big Tobacco RICO Suave? Big Tobacco's woes refuse to end as the industry stares down a $289 billion racketeering suit.
The Motley Fool August 2, 2010 Anand Chokkavelu	Today's Buy Opportunity: Altria Why today's "11 O'Clock Stock" is sin stock Altria.
The Motley Fool August 2, 2010 Anand Chokkavelu	Why We're Buying Altria Due to smoking bans and health consciousness, cigarette usage in the U.S. is on the way down at a rate of 3%-4% a year.
AskMen.com	Is Smoking Back? Cigarette smoking rose slightly for the first time in almost 15 years, dashing health officials' hopes that the U.S. smoking rate had moved permanently below 20 percent.
BusinessWeek July 12, 2004 David Henry	British American: Tobacco Without The Flames Just as smokers crave cigarettes without cancer risk, investors long for tobacco company cash flows without litigation risk. At British American Tobacco the fear of litigation, if not the fact, is being eased by the sale of its U.S. business.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2004 Alyce Lomax	Is UST Up to Snuff? Where there's no smoke, there's UST. While UST's tobacco brands are of the smokeless variety, investors probably got shaky about analysts' ideas of possible smoke on the horizon -- the smoke of a price war, that is.
The Motley Fool July 7, 2005 Chris Mallon	A Big Tobacco Bargain With its legal woes resolved, Altria looks undervalued among its peers.
The Motley Fool May 26, 2009 Colleen Paulson	What's Your MO, Altria? Altria is actively supporting FDA regulation of cigarettes. Read on to see why.
AskMen.com	WHO: Get Graphic With Smokers Cigarette packages should include images of sickness and suffering caused by tobacco, along with written warnings, the World Health Organization said.
The Motley Fool August 2, 2004 Phil Wohl	Reynolds' Smokin' Results The cigarette company completes a transaction, changes its name, and announces solid results. The new leaner, more focused Reynolds is a much more attractive investment candidate than the previous companies.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2010 Colleen Paulson	Altria's Stayin' Alive Altria delivers EPS growth in spite of a decline in cigarette volume.
The Motley Fool September 23, 2004 Bill Mann	The Cigarette Mafia The federal government seeks $280 billion from the tobacco companies, using laws designed to combat the Mafia.
The Motley Fool January 27, 2004 Alyce Lomax	R.J. Reynolds's Bummin' Smokes Discount cigarettes smoked out RJR's fourth quarter.
Salon.com June 15, 2001 Elizabeth M. Whelan	Tobacklash! One man wins $3 billion from Philip Morris and suddenly people are pro-big tobacco. What have they been smoking?
The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 John Rosevear	The Wages of Sin Are Fine Indeed Socially responsible investors avoid "sin stocks" -- companies that sell tobacco or opportunities to gamble, for instance. That's too bad for those investors, because some sin stocks can present fine opportunities for profits.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2011 Austin Smith	MO Money, MO Problems Altria (ticker MO) has more money, but people be hatin'.
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The Motley Fool October 30, 2009 Mike Pienciak	2 Big Reasons To Buy Philip Morris International A steady dividend and relatively strong international markets bolster the "buy" case for Phillip Morris.
The Motley Fool October 29, 2007 Billy Fisher	The Drag on Reynolds American The tobacco company reports adjusted EPS growth of 12% versus its year-ago quarter. Reynolds American is still an attractive opportunity for income investors and value investors alike.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2011 Morgan Housel	A Big Threat to Big Tobacco? Thank you for not smoking.
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The Motley Fool June 7, 2005	Quit Smoking, Get Rich There are thousands of reasons to quit -- and many are dollar bills.
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The Motley Fool October 18, 2007 Billy Fisher	Altria Lights Up The tobacco giant's third-quarter earnings beat Wall Street's estimates.
The Motley Fool June 23, 2004 Bill Mann	FTC OKs Tobacco Merger R.J. Reynolds and British American Tobacco both saw shares leap higher after the Federal Trade Commission approved the merger between BTI's Brown & Williamson subsidiary and RJR.