By LAURA REILEY | The Washington Post | Published: April 20, 2021 Theo Wilson avoided smoking most of his adult life. He remembered the smell of menthol from his childhood, the smell of his father s cigarettes, his aunt s and his grandmother s. The minty smell of the cigarettes whose secondhand smoke gave him childhood asthma, the smell of the cigarettes that cut his grandmother s life short. But in 2018, when he portrayed an Iraq War veteran in a play in Denver, his character was expected to smoke a marijuana cigarette onstage. The prop master got him an e-cigarette with a blinking blue light at the end, wrapping it in rolling paper to look convincing. After everything he knew, after railing against smoking, he got hooked. Over-the-counter minty e-cigarettes became fat vape pens, vaping turned into menthol and clove tobacco cigarettes. He bummed Kools and Newports two of the most popular menthol brands off the musicians he played with, off the former felons he knew, their ow
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, would make great choices as they have the hallmarks of a dirt cheap stock with the potential to skyrocket.
1. MGM Resorts
It would be inaccurate to say that MGM Resorts stock
could skyrocket in price because it is already soaring. Share prices are up 33% year-to-date thanks to optimism surrounding its sports betting platform, BetMGM. The stock also looks poised for continued momentum as the coronavirus vaccine rollout helps bring tourists back to its brick-and-mortar casinos.
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Analysts at
Morgan Stanley predict a fast, strong recovery in Las Vegas, noting strong airline ticket sales and increased hiring activity on the strip. MGM normally earns 40% of its revenue in Las Vegas, so a resurgence here would help boost its top line after a 60% decline to $5.2 billion in 2020. The company may also emerge from the crisis with a relatively intact balance sheet, helped by the well-timed leaseback sales of its MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay properties for a