http://www.mail.com/companies/58204-altria-group-inc.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/companies/58204-altria-group-inc.html http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2043782-marlboro-maker-altria-to-jump-e-cigarettes.html RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Marlboro Man may soon be hitching his wagon to a new kind of cigarette. Altria Group Inc., owner of the nation's biggest cigarette maker, Philip Morris USA, announced Thursday that its NuMark subsidiary plans to introduce an electronic cigarette during the second half of the year, making it the last of the major domestic tobacco c... Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:19:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2043782-marlboro-maker-altria-to-jump-e-cigarettes.html 2013-04-25T15:19:06Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2036674-nyc-proposes-raising-age-cigarette-purchases.html NEW YORK (AP) — After years of striving to set a national agenda for curbing smoking, New York City may set a new bar by becoming the most populous place in America to raise the minimum age for buying cigarettes to 21. A new proposal would increase the threshold from 18, a federal minimum that is the standard in many places. Four states and some communiti... Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:40:15 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/2036674-nyc-proposes-raising-age-cigarette-purchases.html 2013-04-23T06:40:15Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2027916-philip-morris-intl-1q-profit-falls-2-pct.html RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc. said Thursday that its first-quarter profit fell nearly 2 percent on a decline in the number of cigarettes sold. The company, based in New York and Switzerland, lowered its full-year earnings guidance because of changes in foreign exchange rates, which also hurt its quarterly results. P... Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:54:02 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/2027916-philip-morris-intl-1q-profit-falls-2-pct.html 2013-04-18T22:54:02Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2012424-critics-revive-promises-to-knock-obama-budget.html WASHINGTON (AP) — Advocates for seniors say President Barack Obama is breaking his promise to protect Social Security, while conservatives say he is breaking his promise not to raise taxes on the middle class. Obama's budget proposal includes a mix of tax increases and benefit cuts in an effort to reduce government borrowing and spark the still-fragile ec... Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:16:58 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/2012424-critics-revive-promises-to-knock-obama-budget.html 2013-04-11T14:16:58Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1965552-apnewsbreak-us-to-revise-cigarette-warning-labels.html RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The U.S. government is abandoning a legal battle to require that cigarette packs carry a set of large and often macabre warning labels depicting the dangers of smoking and encouraging smokers to quit. Instead, the Food and Drug Administration will go back to the drawing board and create labels to replace those that included images of ... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:56:06 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/health/1965552-apnewsbreak-us-to-revise-cigarette-warning-labels.html 2013-03-19T20:56:06Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1951104-philip-morris-intl-ceo-camilleri-to-step.html RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Philip Morris International Inc. said Wednesday that CEO Louis C. Camilleri will step down and be replaced by the man who led it before it became an independent company. The seller of Marlboro and other cigarette brands overseas said its current chief operating officer, Andre Calantzopoulos, will become CEO immediately after the compa... Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:06:07 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1951104-philip-morris-intl-ceo-camilleri-to-step.html 2013-03-13T15:06:07Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1907998-fda-names-head-tobacco-products-center.html RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Food and Drug Administration veteran who helped spearhead efforts to regulate the tobacco industry in the 1990s is taking over the agency's Center for Tobacco Products. Mitch Zeller will become the center's director on March 4, FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said in an internal memo sent late Thursday and confirmed by The Associa... Fri, 22 Feb 2013 18:28:40 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1907998-fda-names-head-tobacco-products-center.html 2013-02-22T18:28:40Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1858672-marlboro-maker-altria-4q-profit-up-32-percent.html RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Marlboro maker Altria Group's fourth-quarter profit rose about 32 percent as it commanded higher prices for cigarettes and smokeless tobacco and expanded its industry-leading share of the U.S. market. The owner of the nation's biggest cigarette maker, Philip Morris USA, on Thursday reported net income of $1.1 billion, or 55 cents per ... Thu, 31 Jan 2013 14:16:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1858672-marlboro-maker-altria-4q-profit-up-32-percent.html 2013-01-31T14:16:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1763580-fda-review-tobacco-products-grinds-to-halt.html RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Talk about a smoke break. Tobacco companies have introduced almost no new cigarettes or smokeless tobacco products in the U.S. in more than 18 months because the federal government has prevented them from doing so, an Associated Press review has found. It's an unprecedented pause for an industry that historically h... Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:21:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1763580-fda-review-tobacco-products-grinds-to-halt.html 2012-12-13T18:21:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1727058-judge-orders-tobacco-companies-to-they-lied.html WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered tobacco companies to publish corrective statements that say they lied about the dangers of smoking and that disclose smoking's health effects, including the death on average of 1,200 people a day. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler previously had said she wanted the industry to pay for corrective statem... Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:37:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1727058-judge-orders-tobacco-companies-to-they-lied.html 2012-11-27T21:37:00Z