Exclusive-PMI hires U.S. lobbyists as key IQOS launch nears
Philip Morris International has registered new lobbyists in at least 19 U.S. states this year, and plans to add some in four more in the next two weeks, according to a Reuters' review of public records and information provided by the company. The world's biggest cigarette maker by market value is expanding its lobbying firepower as it gears up to launch its flagship IQOS heated tobacco device in a long-awaited entry to the United States, where vaping is already an established alternative to smoking. State-level lobbying registers examined by Reuters showed that in at least three st...