Convenient portfolio
Sell them cigs to fuck up their lungs then sell them the cure for fucked up lungs
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simbosan nuck nuck nuck, Mon 9 Aug 2021, 3:01,
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I know two people who've worked for PMI
Both of them have said that most of the company's spare cash is going into non-smoking products, and diversifying the portfolio to get out of cigarettes.
Of course, all that spare cash is coming in from fag sales, but they can see an end to cigarettes as a viable business.
And let's face it, the tobacco giants have been trying to diversify since the cancer connection was first identified. When my dad worked for Rizla in the 70s and 80s, they were constantly trying to get other products off the ground.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Mon 9 Aug 2021, 6:53,
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The firm indicated it would welcome a government ban on cigarettes and said "strong regulation" was needed to "help solve the problem of cigarette smoking once and for all".
Yeah, but you’re not exactly taking the initiative here are you?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 9 Aug 2021, 7:24,
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It's always been this way:
Fossil fuel companies trying to get into renewables, tobacco companies getting out of fags, slave traders getting into modern apprenticeships.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Mon 9 Aug 2021, 8:00,
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In a press release OSTEC* pointed out that they were seeking carbon neutral shackles and chains and that all whips were were fully organic
and have been facilitating mass passenger transport for centuries, much of it wind powered
*Organisation of Slave Trading and Exporting Countries
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