"The bullet had come in at an angle, ricocheted off the cigarette case, and bounced away
By the 90s, almost everyone was aware that smoking is bad for you the surgeon general had been saying so since the 60s but establishing the idea that tobacco companies knowingly deceived the public about the health effects of tobacco was an important part of a larger litigation strategy
It also marks a substantial consolidation in the ranks of big tobacco - the kind of consolidation that has just happened in another of the "sin" industries with the merger of the world's two largest brewers, AB InBev and SAB Miller
Philip Morris International, the worlds largest international tobacco company, could eventually stop selling cigarettes, its chief executive told the BBC on Wednesday, as it launched its alternative product IQOS in Britain
The only things that are different, which are pretty major i guess, are 1) the car and therefore 2) the battery