Philip Morris: Marlboro proprietor sells UK inhaler firm amid protests

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The tobacco large that makes Marlboro cigarettes has offered a British inhaler firm for a rock-bottom value in response to what the corporate known as an “inappropriate” response.

Philip Morris International (PMI) has offered Vectra Group for £150 million ($198 million) simply three years after shopping for it in a deal value greater than £1 billion.

PMI's resolution to accumulate Vectura, a maker of inhalers to deal with lung illnesses corresponding to bronchial asthma, was criticised as hypocritical.

However, PMI defended the transfer, saying it was a part of its technique to maneuver away from cigarettes and in direction of “smoke-free” companies corresponding to vaping.

With inputs from BBC

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