On 2/6/2014 1:23 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 2/6/14, 1:19 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/6/2014 8:41 AM, Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:41:52 -0600, Califbill
wrote:

Poco Loco wrote:
On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:51:35 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 13:11:49 -0500, Poco Loco
wrote:


I hope your fall report says a doctor turned her on to Zyban and
Nicorettes and she doesn't smoke
any more - anything!

Nicotine gun is a scourge itself. I know plenty of people hooked on
the gum.
My wife goes through about one of these every few months.
http://www.discountgum.com/Products/...-36-packs.aspx



It took me about a year to get off the gum. I gradually started
chewing
another. But I'm now
addicted to chewing something. The Orbit orange stuff was most like
the
Nicorettes. And a hell of a
lot cheaper.

Still enough smokers out there. I bought $60k of Phillip Morris in
about
2002. Paid 5.4% dividend then. Dividend is now about 4.5%
depending on
the division. But the stock has tripled in value. Not a bad
investment.
Oand if the government could stop smoking, the price would drop on the
stock.

Smoking is very popular overseas. I think that's where the cigarette
guys are making the big bucks.
In Germany, Marlboro was king.


And China.



There have been many news articles pointing out that American tobacco
corporations are concentrating their marketing activities on young
people in third world countries.


Maybe now. When I visited the PRC in 1986 our host recommended
bringing as many cartons of Marlboros as we could. We passed them out
to the Chinese attendees at the various meetings we attended. It was
like handing out gold bars with all the bowing, smiling and hand-shaking.