Washington’s year-end spending deal has included a measure that lifts the age for buying tobacco products to 21 from 18, but one prominent anti-tobacco group is issuing warnings this week about the development, rather than celebrating a victory. Raising the buying age nationwide for all tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes,Read More →
© Reuters. Philip Morris International’s research and development headquarters are pictured next to the company’s cigarette factory in Neuchatel By Uday Sampath Kumar (Reuters) – Philip Morris International Inc (N:) and Altria Group Inc (N:) are discussing an all-stock merger, potentially reuniting two of the world’s largest tobacco companies inRead More →
TORONTO — Cronos Group Inc. is one of two Canadian cannabis producers to have inked a multibillion-dollar deal with a big American company. The $1.8 billion investment Marlboro maker Altria Group Inc. MO, +2.68% made in Cronos CRON, +3.87% CRON, +3.13% in December legitimized overnight a company that produces farRead More →
