Before I became a finance professional, I thought figuring out what was a good investment required some sort of mysterious wizardry involving risk and ratios and balance sheets and…I give up! All that stuff is useful and important if you’re trying to decide between Philip Morris and Marlborough...
How far we’ve come in 50 years! Very few still argue today that tobacco is safe for consumers. Tobacco use has been linked to diseases like lung cancer, stroke, heart disease, asthma, diabetes — even negative reproductive effects for pregnant women, such as ectopic pregnancy. For these, and other reasons, life expectancy is lower for regular tobacco users than for those who abstain...