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About 150 cities and counties have placed some sort of restriction on the sale of menthol cigarettes, most issuing an outright ban

Traditionally, the cigarette market has been dominated by major corporations such as Altria Group, Inc., British American Tobacco, and Philip Morris International

There were five main manufactures in the industry in Britain: Rothmans and Philip Morris, who have 14 per cent of the British market between them, but do not manufacture here

A 1976 memo from Ernest Pepples, Brown & Williamson's vice president and general counsel, noted that filter cigarettes surged from less than 1 percent of the market in 1950 to 87 percent in 1975