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Sydney Morning Herald  May 14  Comment 
Smokers will pay more for cigarettes, a tax offset for medical expenses will be phased out and taxpayers will face a rise in the Medicare levy after changes announced on Tuesday.     
Samurai Trader  May 13  Comment 
These are the industries with 75% or more of their stocks advancing today.  These are the industries with 30% or more of their stocks making new highs. Cigarettes is a 6 stock group that really got hit hard in 2012, has bounced back, but...
Times Online  May 13  Comment 
SNP ministers are prepared to make Scotland the first part of the United Kingdom where cigarettes are sold in plain...
Benzinga  May 10  Comment 
Below are the top cigarettes stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of return on equity. The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM) is 339.70%. Philip Morris' operating margin for the same period is...
Clusterstock  May 7  Comment 
Sorry, big tobacco.  "Smoking"  e-cigarettes  is infinitely better than smoking the real thing. I used to be a cigarette smoker. Now I'm what you might call an early adopter of e-cigarettes. I've been "vaping" ("vaping" is short...
The Hindu Business Line  May 7  Comment 
Giving relief to smokers, Uttar Pradesh government today slashed VAT on cigarette/cigar from existing 50 per cent to 25 per cent, official sources said here. The decision was taken at the...
Cloud Computing  May 7  Comment 
TUSTIN, Calif. , May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- E Cigarette Reviewed has today released a brand new review of White Cloud Cigarettes, highlighting important information any e-cig user must know before making a purchase. read more
Clusterstock  May 6  Comment 
American smokers will tell you about the huge price discrepancies for cigarettes state to state. The main reason for this is the varying excise taxes (SET) that each state places on a pack of smokes. Citi's Tobacco team led by Vivien Azer...
Benzinga  May 6  Comment 
When it comes to cigarettes, taxation as a means of social engineering only benefits the black market. So said National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) Senior Vice President, Lyle Beckwith in a USA Today Op-Ed. The latest...
Forbes  May 3  Comment 
As I've remarked several times before it takes a certain kind of madness to both subsidise and also tax the very same thing. We would think it very odd if there were vast sin taxes on booze so that people drank less and also found out that the...




 

Litigation in the U.S. has had a major impact on these companies. In addition to costing them billions of dollars directly, the negative publicity has not helped them to grow their customer base.

Upstream

Schweitzer-Mauduit International (SWM) : tobacco paper

Downstream

CVS Caremark Corporation (CVS)

Wal-Mart (WMT)

Walgreen Company (WAG)

Rite Aid (RAD)

Exxon Mobil (XOM) : gas station convenience stores

Seven & I Holdings (TYO:3382) : 7-Eleven stores

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