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Article: Essential Action: Altria/Philip Morris Break-Up Threatens to Worsen the Global Tobacco Pandemic
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- January 30, 2008
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To: POLITICAL EDITORS
Contact: Robert Weissman of Essential Action, +1-202-387-8030
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "The breakup of
Philip Morris will unleash a Philip Morris International that will
be even more predatory in pushing its toxic products worldwide,"
says Robert Weissman, director of Essential Action, a corporate
accountability group based in Washington, D.C. "An independent
Philip Morris International, which is likely to be based in
Switzerland, will no longer feel constrained by public opinion in
its home country and most important market, the United States."
Altria/Philip Morris is the world's biggest multinational tobacco
corporation. Eighty percent of its ...