The Hamilton Spectator

CEO sees end to cigarettes in decade

The chief executive of the company that makes Marlboro cigarettes was quoted by Britain’s Mail on Sunday as saying that the tobacco company foresaw an end to its sales of traditional cigarettes in Britain within 10 years. “I want to allow this company to leave smoking behind,” Jacek Olczak, the CEO of Philip Morris International, was quoted in the paper as saying. Asked if that meant Philip Morris would stop selling traditional cigarettes in the U.K. within that time, he was quoted as saying, “Absolutely.”

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