Smith, lead manager of communications for Reynolds American Inc
"With legal tobacco product sales being banned, consumers are turning to the illegal market and paying high prices for mostly illicit cigarettes that don't pay taxes to government." In the last financial year, South Africa's tax collecting agency raised about $790m (650m) from tobacco sales
"We know that the sale of tobacco is extremely inconsistent with being a health-care provider." CVS is the first major pharmacy retailer to voluntarily stop selling tobacco products
SINGAPORE: Chinese authorities are moving to ban the sale and use of cigarette cards by minors, some who have gone to great lengths to acquire used cigarette packs to play the popular schoolyard game
Bill Spann, CEO of the International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association, an industry group, says cigars are a hobby, not a habit, and they arent marketed or sold to children