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We also refer to these companies as the Big 4.* The longer answer: The Big 4 and their subsidiaries, or branches of their companies that they operate around the world, are the force behind the tobacco epidemic that currently kills more than 8 million people every year
Beyond Nicotine Btomorrow Ventures (BTV), the Group's corporate venture capital arm, has completed 25 investments (with three successful exits) since its launch in 2020, and continues to invest in innovative, consumer-led new sciences and technologies and sustainability to support the Group's transformational strategy for A Better Tomorrow TM
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However, increasingly harsh regulations are a real risk dividend investors must watch in this space, especially given British American Tobacco's heavier reliance on menthol cigarettes that might be banned in both the U.S
The company's IQOS smokeless cigarette which is already on sale in over a dozen markets including Japan, Switzerland and Italy, heats tobacco enough to produce a vapor without burning it