Several states increased taxes on cigarettes during the past year, including Texas, which added a $1 per pack tax onto the already high-priced product. This created an even greater demand for smokers to look for cheaper alternatives to buying their favorite brand of cigarette. Some smokers switched from a premium brand to a discount brand; […]
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Would you believe that about an hour outside of Bozeman, Montana, is a ranch located in the middle of nowhere that offers once-in-a-lifetime opportunities? I couldn’t personally have thought that such a wonder was hidden away in the middle of nowhere, but there is. Thanks to Marlboro Cigarettes and Philip Morris, the Marlboro Ranch (also […]
Manila, Philippines – Close to 30 percent of Filipino adults smoke even if almost every one in the population is aware of the ill-effects of puffing a cigarette, results of a survey conducted across the Philippines in 2009 showed. According to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS), a joint effort by the Philippine’s Department of […]
Jeffrey Wigand is the whistleblower and alleged hero who was a top-level executive at Brown & Williamson Tobacco in the late eighties and early nineties who illegally breached two separate confidentiality agreements by leaking trade secrets to a television network (CBS) and the Federal government. Wigand is the son of a mechanical engineer, a dad […]