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Non-Tech : Philip Morris - A Stock For Wealth Or Poverty (MO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: don kramer who wrote (2276)	9/5/1998 10:51:00 AM
From: Glenn Duncan	Respond to of 6439

To All, Gary Black's analysis: tobacco.org Good investing, DD

To: don kramer who wrote (2276)	9/8/1998 8:11:00 AM
From: Geoff	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6439

Philip Morris, makers of Camel and other leading brands, and Lorillard, the makers of Newport brand cigarettes, were unavailable for comment late Friday . Did anyone else see this? MO makes Camels! Damn, I must be invested in the wrong company, and this must be the wrong thread! Is Reuters really this bad on accuracy of what they report? Talk about accountability. If MO were selling camels, I'd be running for the hills. All the cookies in the world (Nabisco) can't help the camel get the straw off its back! later, geoff

To: don kramer who wrote (2276)	9/9/1998 6:22:00 PM
From: don kramer	Respond to of 6439

From: London Times (Business) Cigarettes tipped for a comeback The huddles of smokers gathered outside any City office building pay inelegant testimony to the hostility to the habit now rampant in the Square Mile. But tobacco is back in fashion. Shares in the newly demerged BAT rose like gentle smoke rings yesterday, puffed up by the sense that demand for the weed will continue even when world recession hits sales of caviar and champagne. The defensive properties of tobacco are back in vogue. In Russia, the company is having to put up the prices of its cigarettes each day, but the impoverished Russians are still buying. ... Yesterday's debut of the the new companies proved this to be a demerger worth doing. The shares that were valued at 577p on Friday night reappeared in their new, two quote form, with prices which, by the close equated to almost 630p. ... dk