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Philip Morris focuses on the global market

Around the world, the company fights back with litigation

By Farah Stockman

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 24, 2012

in recent years, the coolness of smoking has faded away, in one of the most profound cultural changes of our generation. Today, only 19 percent of Americans smoke, compared to 42 percent in 1965, when the surgeon general declared the habit deadly.

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