Word: marlboros
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...tied in the U.S. by a shrinking market and a powerful antismoking lobby, the Marlboro Man is setting his sights on roomier pastures?China. TIME has learned that Philip Morris is set to begin making the world's best-selling cigarette in the largest tobacco market anywhere. China's more than 300 million smokers bought 1.75 trillion cigarettes last year, but due to government restrictions, foreign sales accounted for only around 5% of the total...
...lingers over a Marlboro and a 1 a.m. cup of coffee outside his favorite Caltex station, Anand Supapdee ponders the future of his white pickup truck and concludes its days are numbered. "It's the ghosts," says 47-year-old Anand. "We have to change our cars every few years when they get haunted." Before he can explain, a static-coated voice issues from his handheld shortwave radio. Several kilometers away on a rain-slicked stretch of Bangkok's Boromratchanee Road, a black Toyota sedan has plowed into the back of a truck carrying sacks of cement. Anand...
...When not writing for the English-language Daily Star, she spends her time teaching William M. Rasmussen ’04 how to say, “I swear I am not a CIA or Mossad agent” in Arabic and picking up bad Lebanese habits like smoking Marlboro Lights, drinking highly caffeinated tea and sleeping in the afternoon...
...junk foods? A ban on advertising to tots? A national nutrition campaign advising us all to eat less? Could any of this actually happen? In the days when the Marlboro Man was riding high on the airwaves, Brownell points out, no one thought you could ban cigarette ads. "I don't know at what point the country will be so desperate," says Nestle, but she thinks that point is approaching fast. "If you're a family that has kids with Type 2 diabetes, your life is not going to be pretty," she says. "Nobody has a clue how much this...
...senior aide to the previous conservative government. Finance Ministry officials are instead touting Deputy Finance Minister Caio Koch-Weser, a Social Democrat appointee responsible for global finance and currencies. But neither can check in unless Welteke checks out. - By William Boston Smuggle Struggle Ends Philip Morris International, makers of Marlboro, agreed to pay the E.U. $1 billion to head off legal action over the firm's alleged collusion with cigarette smugglers. The deal, involving the largest sum Brussels has ever squeezed out of a private corporation, may not be the last: Japan Tobacco is eager to end a similar dispute...