The British American Tobacco Plc logo sits on a sign standing outside their research and development laboratories in Southampton, U.K., on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. BAT, the maker of Lucky Strike and Pall Mall cigarettes, forecast earnings growth this year as it completes its purchase of Reynolds American Inc. and expands sales of a smoking alternative product across Japan to catch up with Philip Morris International Inc. Photographer: Luke MacGregor/Bloomberg via Getty Images
392424 03: The Philip Morris logo adorns the outside of the company''s New York headquarters July 25, 2001 in New York City. A report commissioned by the Philip Morris company and made public a week ago outlined the financial benefits of smoking on a country''s economy by the "indirect positive effects" of early deaths. The report examined the Czech Republic, determining that smokers who died prematurely from tobacco-related illnesses saved the Czech government $30 million in 1999. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
A woman passes before a logo of Japanese cigarette maker Japan Tabacco (JT) at the company's headquarters in Tokyo on March 15, 2013. Japan Tobacco (JT) said that Tokyo's partial sale of its stake in the former monopoly would raise about 7.8 billion USD as the government looks to finance huge disaster reconstruction. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)
A packet of John Player cigarettes, produced by Imperial Tobacco Group Plc, sit arranged for a photograph in London, U.K., on Thursday, April 7, 2011. The global market for cigarettes excluding China, which is largely closed to foreign tobacco companies, will probably shrink by 2.5 percent in 2011, BAT Chief Executive Officer Nicandro Durante said Feb. 24. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Woman inhaling from an electronic cigarette
