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Tobacco Companies Sue Federal Government Over Graphic Cigarette Warning Labels

AP/The Huffington Post | JEFFREY COLLINS | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Tobacco Companies, Rj-Reynolds, Nicotine, Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, Smoking, Slideadbigshot, Fda, Commonwealth Brands, Cigarette Warning Labels, The-Family-Smoking-Prevention-and-Tobacco-Control-Act, Video, Cigarettes, Lorillard, Liggett-Group, Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Health and Human Services, Tobacco, Food and Drug Administration, Altria Group, Phillip Morris, Business News

COLUMBIA, S.C. (Associated Press)-- Four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies sued the federal government Tuesday over new graphic cigarette lab...

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The Biggest Companies You've Never Heard Of (PHOTOS)

24/7 Wall St. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aramark, Biggest Companies, Tiaa-Cref, Slidepollajax, Yum Brands, Tjx, Ingram-Micro, 24/7wallst, Altria Group, Phillip Morris, Business News

By 24/7 Wall St.: The great majority of the largest companies in America are easily identified by name by most consumers. That is because their names ...

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'I Gots Mine': Dispensary Owners Against Marijuana Legalization

Russ Belville | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marijuana Dispensaries, Proposition 19, Marijuana, Prop 19, Marijuana Legalization, Legalize Marijuana, Phillip Morris, Los Angeles News
Russ Belville

Prop 19 means that marijuana retailers become more like other retail businesses, instead of the loosely-regulated turnkey goldmines they have been.

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WORST Corporate Rebrandings (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Sara Yin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chevrolet, Aol, Logos, Car Ads, Rebranding, Xe, Willis Group Holdings, Chevy Ads, Sears Tower, Chevy, Marketing, General Motors, Radio Shack, Blackwater, Brinks, Slidepollajax, Phillip Morris, GMAC Bailout, Business News

General Motors may have backed off a "poorly worded" memo demanding employees call Chevy by its more refined name, Chevrolet, but the company's market...

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"Big Tobacco" Sues NYC Over Anti-Cigarette Posters

Emily Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lung Cancer, Cigarettes, Reynolds, Phillip Morris, New York City Board of Health, Lorillard, New York News

A new resolution by the New York City Board of Health -- requiring cigarette merchants to publicize the health risks of smoking -- has the nation's th...

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The Magnificent Seven Ride Again

Dan Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: AT&T, Dow Jones, Wall Street, Nasdaq, Microchip Technology, Sam Stovall, Standard & Poor's, Dominion Resources, Altria, Genuine Parts Conoco Phillips, Magnificent Seven, Windstream Corp, Phillip Morris, Stock Picks, Yul Brenner, Business News
Dan Dorfman

Sam Stovall, the chief investment strategist of Standard & Poor's, has come up with his own magnificent seven for the new year -- a group of seven fat dividend-paying stocks.

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Life Cycle: Smoke 'Em If You've Got 'Em

Simran Sethi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Smoking, Cigarettes, Filters, Environment, Green, Environmentalism, Tobacco Industry, Deforestation, Phillip Morris, Simran Sethi, Sarah Smarsh, Green News
Simran Sethi

Deforestation is the most direct environmental repercussion of the approximately ten gazillion cigarettes smoked in the world daily. Wood is used just about every step in production--to cure tobacco, to wrap the leaves with paper, to box them up with cardboard.

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