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—LOUIS CAMILLERI, CEO of tobacco company Philip Morris International, at an annual shareholder meeting in New York, in response to an anti-tobacco activist who cited statistics that smoking kills 400,000 Americans and 5 million people worldwide each year. Philip Morris has reiterated its position that "tobacco products are addictive and harmful." [via AP]
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