Altria Group, Inc.

Partial list of victims

2001-10-02 11:23:00

Names of those confirmed dead, reported dead or reported missing in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Persons confirmed dead include victims who have been confirmed dead by a coroner's office or the Defense Department. It also includes those for whom death...

Wall St. gets tech boost

2002-11-12 15:02:00

Wall Street put aside worries about Iraq on Tuesday and sprinted higher as investors snapped up stocks made more attractive by three days of declines. Technology stocks were the big winners as upbeat forecasts from Cisco Systems Inc. and Vodafone PLC...

Wall Street reverses plunge

2002-09-04 13:47:00

Buyers returned to the market Wednesday, sending stocks sharply higher following five days of selling. While the Dow Jones industrials climbed more than 100 points, analysts were reluctant to call it a rally, attributing the gain to technical factors....

Gifts returned or destroyed, several council members report

2003-11-07 00:00:00

Several Baltimore City Council members reported in disclosure forms filed this week that they have returned or destroyed certain gifts of complimentary passes that ethics officials questioned last month. The annual reports also showed that council...

U.S. RESEARCH ROUND-UP: Citrix, Xilinx, Leap Wireless

2012-04-26 12:50:09

April 26 (Reuters) - Wall Street securities analysts revised their ratings and price targets on several U.S. companies, including Harley Davidson, Xilinx and Citrix, on Thursday. HIGHLIGHTS * Citrix : JP Morgan, Citi, several others raise price...

UPDATE 1-Swedish Match Q1 operating profit tops consensus

2012-05-04 02:21:06

* Operating profit 972 mln SEK vs forecast 922 mln * Snuff margin 47.1 pct vs forecast 44.5 pct * U.S. cheap cigar volumes +36 pct * Shares up 2.4 pct By Anna Ringstrom and Veronica Ek STOCKHOLM, May 4 (Reuters) - Tobacco products group Swedish Match...

The day ahead in business

2012-04-26 03:30:00

Reports: Initial jobless claims for the week ended April 21, 7:30 a.m.; Pending home sales for March, 9 a.m.; Mortgage rates for week ended April 26, 9 a.m. Local earnings: Briggs & Stratton Corp., Brunswick Corp., Cabot MicroElectronics Corp., CME Group...

Surgeon general declares youth smoking an 'epidemic'

2012-03-08 12:01:00

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Smoking among America's youth has reached epidemic proportions, starting them on the path to a lifetime of addiction, the U.S. surgeon general's office said in its first report on youth smoking since 1994. Among U.S. high school...

Tobacco educator not surprised by surgeon general's report on teenage smoking

2012-03-09 10:15:01

Clara Hinton, Somerset County tobacco educator, said she isn't shocked by a surgeon general's report that many teenagers are smoking cigarettes and using smokeless tobacco. "We had incredible programs in place, then funding was cut," she said. "Meanwhile...

CDC launching graphic anti-smoking ad campaign

2012-03-15 13:22:00

ATLANTA (AP) — In a graphic new ad campaign announced Thursday, the government is trying to shock smokers into quitting with the sometimes-gruesome stories of people damaged by tobacco products. The new effort confronts a hard truth: Despite...

Justice Dept Settles With Philip Morris, R.J. Reynolds Over Tobacco Document Database

2011-12-14 09:51:00

The nation's two largest tobacco companies have agreed to pay $6.25 million to support the country's largest online collection of tobacco documents. The Justice Department announced the settlement with Philip Morris USA Inc. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co....

How to invest $10,000 in 2012

2011-12-07 00:00:00

How would you invest $10,000 in the coming year? That's a question posed annually to a panel of investment experts. A year ago, our pundits were relatively optimistic as most suggested quality U.S. stock investments, along with some shorter-term bonds...

We caught an early screening of this last year, and have been dying for the rest of the world to see it. In this based-on-a-true-story, Jim Carrey plays a gay con man who falls in love with his cellmate (Ewan McGregor).

2010-11-12 19:21:54

Actor Rodrigo Santoro, whose "I Love You Philip Morris " premieres at Sundance, walks the streets of Park City, Utah .

2009-01-18 10:34:27

took over in 1963. Now: Thomann calls Burma-Shave his favorite of all Americana brands; he keeps a set of those billboards in his office.

2008-10-22 00:00:00