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Pity poor Joe Camel. With him out at the retirement pastures and the Marlboro man likewise roaming the wild blue yonder, who’s left to seduce pretty young things...

Author: By Piotr C. Brzezinski | Title: Full of Smoke and Fury | 5/19/2006 | See Source »

...Based on information from undercover agents, informants and industry insiders, the report, which is dated June 29, 2005, offers a unique glimpse of the scale and sophistication of North Korea's illicit-cigarette industry, which has allegedly counterfeited a vast array of brands-from Marlboro to Davidoff. The report estimates that production from 10 to 12 North Korean factories in the counterfeiting business may total 41 billion cigarettes a year, generating annual revenues of $520 million to $720 million. It's not clear how much of this money flows to the regime of dictator Kim Jong Il, whether in duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kim's Bad Habit | 1/30/2006 | See Source »

...Year's resolutions? I'm giving up smoking. I had a terrible incident in a Mommy and Me class. Sam, my son, had got a pack of Marlboro Lights out of my handbag and was carrying them through the class. Had he been carrying a small shotgun, it would have been less shocking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 9, 2006 | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal) meet in the summer of 1963 when they sign on to tend a herd of sheep on the eponymous peak, which director Ang Lee locates high in ravishing Marlboro Country. Ennis is a slow-drawling man's man, a simple soul content to live out a life of low-paying odd jobs. Jack is more restless--a not very successful rodeo rider when the spirit moves him but also a man for other, upwardly mobile opportunities. He's the one who initiates their first sexual encounter, although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: A Tender Cowpoke Love Story | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...streamlining the rules for sales and distribution. British American Tobacco has tried (so far unsuccessfully) to set up a joint venture to manufacture cigarettes in China. U.S. giant Altria, formerly Philip Morris, has also been negotiating with the government to manufacture and sell its top-selling Marlboro brand on the mainland. Indeed, with most Chinese smokers hacking away from the harsh, high-tar brands produced by the state-owned monopoly, the China National Tobacco Corporation, foreign companies have been stumbling over themselves to hawk their wares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Smoking Curb is Bad News for Big Tobacco | 8/30/2005 | See Source »

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