British American Tobacco

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Promise of tougher regulations took $130bn American tobacco industry off guard

BAT had previously offered $47 billion, an offer that was rejected for being too low

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Move would drastically increase cost of the alternative smoking product

Revenue falls almost 10% with slowdown in sales accelerating in third quarter

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BAT left the country following an ‘exceptional’ request from the British govenment to stop doing business there in 2003