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In 2020 Philip Morris Internationals main rival, British American Tobacco, announced that it, too, would move away from the cigarette business and concentrate instead on switching smokers to newer products it described as posing a reduced risk, such as its Vuse vaping device

They complained that it smelled and looked like roofing tar

That law, which took affect two years ago, cleared the way for the more graphic warning labels, but also allowed the FDA to limit nicotine and banned tobacco companies from sponsoring athletic or social events or giving away free samples or branded merchandise

This led to over 1,000 tobacco related deaths per day in the early 2000s (CDC)