WASHINGTON - Anti-smoking activists have launched another attack on cigarette makers, this time on grounds that publicly traded tobacco companies, including two based in North Carolina, defrauded investors by not coming clean about manipulating nicotine levels.
In a letter Monday, the Washington-based Lung Cancer Alliance urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate New York-based Altria Group Inc., its Philip Morris USA unit, Reynolds American Inc., Lorillard Tobacco Co. and British American Tobacco PLC.
Reynolds American is based in ... |