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Final Shareholder Meeting For Altria Tobacco

It is not that common to find an article that so perfectly expresses what I feel and need to read, but this one does perfectly! Here is a company that is competing with itself, and winning, which is to say, it is losing.  Marlboro, like any cigarette manufacturing giant, is painfully aware of the cultural shift away from smoking, and how that which was once looked up to is now frowned upon.  And so, what does this compay do?  The only logical thing!  They go into the kind of tobacco business to which people turn when they are trying NOT to smoke!  They make chewing tobacco, cigars, and other things that are known to help folks break the habit. Altria CEO conducts his final shareholder meeting By MICHAEL FELBERBAUMRICHMOND, VA. Outgoing Altria Group Inc. CEO Michael E. Szymanczyk finished his final shareholder meeting on Thursday much the same way as his first -- fielding attacks against the nation's largest tobacco company.The owner of top-...

Wall Street Up In Smoke

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Everyone In Wall Street Taking To Smoking? As the market continues to sink more and more smokers are taking to the streets of Wall St to have a cigarette smoke. Shame they didnt hear about the  electronic cigarette !! As Wall Street Burns, Smokers Light Up On the day the Dow plunged almost 800 points, Erick Giliberti was doubling down on his smoking habit. Before the turmoil, says Giliberti, a manager at Deloitte who works with mortgage-backed securities, “I was maybe a pack a week.” Now? “Probably double that…I can’t stare at my computer screen anymore and watch the market collapse in front of me—I just want to get away from it.” Giliberti was standing outside the Deloitte offices at the World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan, furiously thumbing his BlackBerry with one hand and holding a Marlboro Light with the other. He is, he says, “32 going on 55.” From the Financial Center to Wall Street itself to the shell-shocked (former) Lehman Brothers building in midto...