, Columnist
Tobacco's Teflon Gets Tested
A sector investors have long had on autopilot now bears closer watch.
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For decades, it seems nothing has been able to hold back the tobacco industry -- not a steady decline in U.S. smoking rates, not rising cigarette sales taxes, not even the warning labels added to packs years ago spelling out the potentially deadly effects of smoking.
That was until Friday.