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The company had submitted four tobacco and menthol-flavored products for FDA authorization, but the decision could face legal challenges.

The Biden administration this week launched a broadside against Big Tobacco in an effort to break its hold over millions of Americans. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced it will seek a rule forcing dramatic reduction in the amount of nicotine in cigarettes, to render them less addictive…

Altria stock rebounded on Thursday, after sliding Wednesday, as the FDA ordered Juul to stop selling its products in the U.S.

New policy forcing tobacco companies to cut nicotine to nonaddictive amounts could upend industry

Data published on Tuesday shows that Ireland was the second most expensive country in the EU overall last year, with price levels 140% above the EU average

Pandemic-led rise in demand for smoking products and growing health concerns have incentivized tobacco companies to invent low-risk tobacco products, which should drive the industry’s growth. Moreover, being a part of the consumer defensive industry, tobacco manufacturers Altria Group (MO) and Philip Morris (PM) should witness significant investors’ attention amid…

The Biden administration signaled that it would develop a proposed rule to establish a maximum nicotine level to reduce the addictiveness of cigarettes and certain other combusted tobacco products. The goal of the potential rule would be to reduce youth use, addiction, and death. 

The Biden administration wants to make the tobacco industry cut back the amount of addictive nicotine allowed in cigarettes sold in the U.S.

At one point in Al Gore’s seminal 2006 film “An Inconvenient Truth,” the former vice president laments that his tobacco-farming parents didn’t stop raising tobacco until after their beloved daughter Nancy died of lung cancer in Tennessee.