Sentences with phrase «u.s. cigarette manufacturers»

Phyllis Blaunstein, executive director of nasbe, said that the Tobacco Institute, a Washington - based trade association that represents U.S. cigarette manufacturers, approached the state - boards group with an offer to help develop educational materials for teen - agers; nasbe officials suggested that the institute sponsor the communications booklet.

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Manufacturers contend it's a safer alternative to cigarettes, and consumers have pushed sales in the U.S. beyond $ 1 billion.

Unregulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, e-cigarettes have been widely promoted by their manufacturers as a way for people to quit smoking conventional cigarettes.

«No matter how this process spins itself out,» George Griffin, commercial counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, told Matthew N. Winokur, public affairs manager of Philip Morris Asia, in a «Dear Matt» letter in January 1986, «I want to emphasize that the embassy and the various U.S. government agencies in Washington will keep the interests of Philip Morris and the other American cigarette manufacturers in the forefront of our daily concerns.»