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Philip Morris revised down its forecast for 2010 full-year earnings per share to a range of $3.70 to $3.80 from the $3.75 to $3.85 per share range it had projected in April 2010. Taking out the currency impact, the maker of Marlboro -- the world's top-selling cigarette -- actually projects earnings per share to increase by approximately 14% to 17%, compared to $3.24 in 2009, up from the previous 10% to 13% range projected in April.

Are the markets sending you racing for a defensive strategy? Peter Newell, managing director at Vontobel Asset Management, has a stock-picking approach that guards against calamities.

She smoked two packs of Marlboros a day every day from age 16 to her death in her 70s, from lung cancer, natch. So was Shirley Barbanell or Philip Morris USA responsible for her habit... and the eventual grief of her husband, Leon Barbanell? A jury of six deliberated in Florida for about a day and...

British smokers, upset over a recent cigarette ban, might have a solution to their desperate desire for nicotine. United Drinks and Beauty, a Dutch company, is about to release "Liquid Smoking," a non-addictive herbal beverage that, according to the makers, delivers the same kick as cigarettes. It...