Yep.
Posted on 01/04/2018 12:30:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Tobacco giant Philip Morris International is joining in on the “New Year, New Me” idea by announcing it wants to give up smoking in the New Year.
The maker of such brands Marlboro, L&M and Parliament took out full-page ads in several UK newspapers that said its 2018 ambition is to build a smoke-free future and eventually stop selling cigarettes, USA Today reported.
“Philip Morris is known for cigarettes. Every year, many smokers give them up. Now it’s our turn,” according to the blue and white ad, which was published in Business Insider.
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If they want to stop selling cigarettes, then just stop selling them. Glad I could help.
Pot is the new cigarette.
Are they switching to marajuanaz?
Lunacy - whoever green lighted this campaign needs to be sacked.
Smoking is still legal and the company should stop apologizing and market the product as something some adults can use for pleasure - like alcohol or POT!!!!
The government will spend millions to promote people smoking pot.
When they retire the brand name Marlboro and forbid anybody else from ever selling under that brand name then I will take what they’re saying seriously. Somehow I doubt
Did Don Draper write this?
Yep.
Ever since that Cheech and Chong album came out there’s been an urban legend that Philip Morris was going to market marijuana and use “Acapulco Gold” as a trade name if pot was legalized.
They are staying in the nicotine addiction business though.
They are heavily into e-cigs and vaping.
Really all they’re saying is “the market is going e-cig and so are we”. Nothing terribly exciting. Companies follow the market, that’s where the money lives.
“Hey, man, what ‘chu want? Good grammar or good taste?”
If the thinking is this will stop the lawsuits against tobacco use, guess again. Lawyers will be suing tobacco companies for the rest of this century.
Where will Johnnie the Bellboy go?
It’s probably too late to unload your stock.
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