Philip Morris to Combat Online Cigarette Sales

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NEW YORK Philip Morris USA has agreed to help combat the sale of cigarettes over the Internet and via the U.S. mail, in a landmark agreement worked out with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer.

In the pact disclosed late yesterday, PM said it would voluntarily adopt protocols following an agreement reached with 37 other attorneys general across the U.S.

“This is a major step forward in our ongoing effort to shut down illegal Internet cigarette traffickers,” Spitzer said in a statement.



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