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RELEASING WAR CHEST. "The Japanese government is set to loosen its grip on Japan Tobacco ...by selling a third of its stake in a sale that will net the country about $10 billion ... after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, proceeds of the sale of Japan Tobacco shares will go toward rebuilding the country’s battered northeast coast." (2013). https://lnkd.in/dCEpdDD View in LinkedIn

BAT's POT PLANS. "Cigarettes mixed with marijuana ... were a "natural expansion of current smoking habits" and if pot became legal, such cigarettes would be "a change in habit much like moving to cigars." ... "learn how to produce in quantity cigarettes loaded uniformly with a known amount of either ground cannabis or dried and cut cannabis rag." https://lnkd.in/dZUwp4J View in LinkedIn

JT'S COMPLICATED LINE. "JTI recognizes the risks of smoking. JTI does not market its products to minors, and does not market its products in order to encourage anyone to take up smoking ... JTI is committed to developing reduced-risk products, and to fostering accommodation between smokers and non-smokers." But also in the junk food sector. https://lnkd.in/dxKs8Jp View in LinkedIn

POT DREAMS. "Philip Morris "was granted a special permit to grow, cultivate and make marijuana extracts … and that Philip Morris urged the State agency people to secrecy." Over at British American Tobacco, the world's second-largest tobacco firm, documents show that a confidential research effort labeled the "Pot Project" was launched in Britain." https://lnkd.in/dZUwp4J View in LinkedIn

TOBACCO AND PHARMA ALLIANCES. "Japan Tobacco Pharma is a fully integrated pharmaceutical entity ... JT has a number of strategic alliances ... Including: Gilead, Keryx, Roche, Medimmune, and Glaxo SmithKline." JT diversified by founding Akros Pharma and purchasing Torii Pharma. JT was, it turns out, rather unusual in this strategy. https://lnkd.in/d6BqZ4x View in LinkedIn

"DRUG DIVERSIFICATION In a world of increased government intervention, B.A.T should learn to look at itself as a drug company rather than as a tobacco company. The ... programme ... (1) what to administer, (II) how to administer it, and Ill) how to encourage social acceptability ... followed up through the purchase of a drug company." https://lnkd.in/dGX7-Ud View in LinkedIn

TOBACCO PHARMACEUTICALS. A natural alliance for tobacco companies would be with pharmaceutical companies, to access the deep chemistry knowledge base, especially for herbal extracts, provided of course, it could continue to avoid regulation by not making health claims. Curiously, instead, most have made alliances in the junk food sector. View in LinkedIn

WHAT IS TOBACCO'S RELATIONSHIP WITH PHARMA? Both are into drug delivery, both sell nicotine products. As tobacco sales decreased, and tobacco companies eyed marajuina and related possibilities, there must have been considerations about diversification into pharma? View in LinkedIn

IF THIS WAS ISIS, planning to entice, then addict, and then slowly kill over one third of your children, it is probable, if not certain, that there would be a declaration of war. But somehow, we have let tobacco companies have singular rights against legislation or regulation worldwide. How ever did we get into this pickle? History will look back at this era very unkindly. View in LinkedIn

YOUNG UK PUNK CIGARETTES. "Death (and Death Light) is a brand of cigarettes sold ... from 1991 to 1999. Entrepreneur BJ Cunningham invested his life savings to create and market an additive-free smoking product called Death ... marketed to the “young underground punk rock” consumer market." Aptly bankrupt by the Black Death booze company lawsuit. https://lnkd.in/dPT2GbD) View in LinkedIn