Marlboro cigarettes are set to disappear from UK shelves within 10 years, as the company's own boss wants to ban fags. Tobacco firm Phillip Morris International has sold the brand in Britain for more than a hundred years but now wants customers to swap to vaping.
Chief executive Jacek Olczaky said it is part of the tobacco giant's plans to phase out traditional cigarette smoking. He told The Mail on Sunday : "I want to allow this company to leave smoking behind. "I think in the UK, ten years from now, maximum, you can completely solve the problem of smoking." He said this "absolutely" meant that the firm will stop selling traditional cigarettes in the UK and that the Marlboro brand will vanish.
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