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Should tobacco product sales be banned during the COVID-19 pandemic?

by Jack Stewart
Apr 13, 2020
Some health groups point to early research that indicates smoking and vaping can make COVID-19 symptoms worse.
Some medical experts think that smoking and vaping can make symptoms worse.
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FDA may seek to regulate menthol and e-cigarettes

by Tracey Samuelson
Nov 12, 2018
Regulatory changes would face a process that could take years and face litigation.
 Menthol cigarettes are seen for sale on a shelf at a Quick Stop store on March 30, 2010 in Miami, Florida. 
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Big tobacco could get bigger

by Mitchell Hartman
Oct 21, 2016
British American Tobacco's $47 billion bid to take over Reynolds American signals the U.S. cigarette market is still very profitable.
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Tobacco farmers see green in indigo

by Marketplace Contributor
Sep 8, 2016
One company offers growers a way to raise the dye plant instead.
Farmers David Fulton ,left, and Larry Williams inspect a sprig of indigo in Fulton's field. They primarily farm tobacco.
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As cigarette sales shrink, so do tobacco settlement payouts to states

by Jed Kim
Apr 15, 2016
Critics say not enough of the money goes to smoking prevention programs.
States are seeing about a 4.5 percent decrease in settlement payments from the tobacco industry each year.
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