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...tobacco related cases. "I think this is the last constitutional hurdle that big tobacco is going to try to put in our way. So I think we're getting closer to the day of tobacco justice." Because the court declined to hear the case instead of making a ruling, Philip Morris attorney Gregory Little says the company plans on challenging the law again...
Tobacco investors have made it clear how badly they want a settlement. Late last month, for example, rumors swirled about a settlement under which tobacco companies would pay the hefty sum of $10 billion a year--more than the industry currently earns. Philip Morris stock promptly rose $6, creating $5 billion of market value and sending up a smoke signal so dense that even the long-in-denial tobacco industry had to notice. The burning question is this: If the market is ready to embrace such a costly settlement--and antitobacco forces, realizing they're getting nowhere fast in their...
...analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. No industry has greater pricing flexibility, and every nickel-a-pack increase generates $1 billion in annual pretax tobacco earnings. If the industry is worried about gouging customers, shoot, just issue more stock. Wall Street would pay through the nose for a liability-free Philip Morris...
...Writers often disguise their lives as fiction," Leavitt tells Ben near the end of the novella. "The thing they almost never do is disguise fiction as their lives." This is not quite true. Paul Theroux offered an invented autobiography last year in My Other Life, and Philip Roth did much the same in 1993 in Operation Shylock. The Term Paper Artist is as playful as those works and every bit as good...
...tobacco related cases. "I think this is the last constitutional hurdle that big tobacco is going to try to put in our way. So I think we're getting closer to the day of tobacco justice." Because the court declined to hear the case instead of making a ruling, Philip Morris attorney Gregory Little says the company plans on challenging the law again...