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Philip Morris In Negotiations With Original E-Cigarette Company 

Little is known about the backdoor meetings with little to any media coverage
Jump to full article: OfficialWire, 2009-11-04
Author: Tiffany Ellis

Intro:

What many e-cigarette users have feared from day one could be in the works: Philip Morris, the biggest maker of tobacco cigarettes in the United States, has been discovered to be in negotiations with Ruyan Group, which manufactured the original e-cigarette starting in 2005. A short news article on Quamnet.com states the seriousness of the matter:

"Ruyan Group said that an agreement between the Company and Philip Morris International Management S.A. could not be reached on matters relating to the co-operation between them on its "electronic cigarettes" by the end of the first and exclusive phase of negotiations."

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