Vape Company Questions Altria’s Motive Behind Recent Investments In Smoke-Free Alternatives

Altria Group, a US-based tobacco company and one of the biggest in the world, has acquired a majority stake in Burger Sohne, a Switzerland-based company that makes a tobacco-free product similar to snus. The acquisition comes at a time when Altria is rapidly branching out from what has historically been its bread and butter: cigarettes. …

Philip Morris To Stop Selling Cigarettes In The UK

Philip Morris International, the big tobacco company behind such cigarette brands as Marlboro and Virginia Slims, plans to stop selling cigarettes in the United Kingdom by the year 2030. The company revealed its plans to cease cigarette sales in the U.K. during an interview with the Daily Star, an interview in which the company’s director …