Puffing on slim metal tubes loaded with pale yellow liquid, two London businessmen say they have between their lips a cure for what the UN calls “one of the biggest public health threats the world...
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With their backs to the wall amid increasingly tough regulations, as well as the looming threat of having to remove all branding from cigarette packets, tobacco companies need all the allies they...
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The sponsor of Hong Kong's richest annual tennis tournament has pulled out.
But officials are optimistic they will find a replacement for Marlboro for the October event.
10:23PM
Philip Morris has increased its sponsorship of the 17-stage 1997 Marlboro Tour of the Philippines to US$340,000 from $260,000, making it the richest all-Asian cycling tour.
10:37AM
I HAVE had to endure an unpleasant environment, where people living around me smoke, for the past 20 years.
Many of these smokers eventually die from lung cancer and heart disease,...
1:30PM
ACE machine Goran Ivanisevic is confident he can pull himself out of a recent slump by the time he competes in this month's Marlboro Championships at Victoria Park.
6:51AM
FOLLOWING in the footsteps of the highly successful national soccer league, China's basketball authorities will run their first nationwide club championship for men's teams starting in February....
4:59PM
PHILIP Morris Asia has launched its Marlboro Adventure Team programme in Hong Kong through long-term ad agency Leo Burnett.
The competition will send eight winners on an intensive...
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