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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Panel Podcast. I'm Paul swing you,

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Speaker 1: We're joined by opinion columnist Tara la Chapelle. She covers deals,

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Speaker 1: telecomm and media for Bloomberg Opinion. She joins us here

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Speaker 1: on our Bloomberg Interacted Brokers studio, and we're here to

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Speaker 1: talk about this merger Philip mars is and talks to

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Speaker 1: reunite with Altria UH in an all stock deal. So, Tara,

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Speaker 1: is you know what's the rationale for be behind putting

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Speaker 1: these companies back together after years of them being apart. So,

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Speaker 1: as we know, fewer people are smoking, especially in the US,

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Speaker 1: and both of these companies have been working on remaking

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Speaker 1: their images in recent years. If you go to either

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Speaker 1: of their websites right now, you will be hard pressed

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Speaker 1: to find any mention of cigarettes. Of Marlborough anything like that.

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Speaker 1: It's all about reduced risk smoking and quote smoke free

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Speaker 1: products which are on the Philip Morris side of products

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Speaker 1: called I Coast. It's I q O S and that is.

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Speaker 1: And it's funny because it looks like it would be

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Speaker 1: Some people have uh interpreted to me, um, I quit

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Speaker 1: ordinary smoking, but they say there's really no meaning behind it.

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Speaker 1: So I Coast is this product that Philip Morris, which

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Speaker 1: is in the international markets, launched it there. It heats

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Speaker 1: tobacco instead of burning it, so they kind of market

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Speaker 1: that's disputable of course. Um next month they are going

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Speaker 1: to be launching that in the US market, starting in Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: that product here. So I think the goal is to

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Speaker 1: at the websites now and they look like hospital webs exactly. Genuinely,

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Speaker 1: it's all about not smoking, designing a smoke free future,

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Speaker 1: reducing risk, expanding choice. Who are we How long will

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Speaker 1: P M I be in the cigarette business, whether the

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Speaker 1: state of health? I mean, really, what do these companies

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Speaker 1: So I guess that the question is, is the idea

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Speaker 1: I think so. And I think also just the growth.

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Speaker 1: what we're seeing is they realize that the growth markets

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Speaker 1: going on the website. Corporate responsibility progress Report Health effects

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Speaker 1: These genuinely look like advocacy against smoking websites, yet they

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Speaker 1: still sell billions of cigarettes from yes, exactly, like outside

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Speaker 1: push this time. Is this deal going to go through?

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Speaker 1: I think it makes sense. I they think it was

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Speaker 1: Sara La Chapelle, thank you so much for being with us.

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Speaker 1: As always. Charla Chapelle as deals, telecom and media columnist

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Speaker 1: to have a lot of fun for using these websites

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Speaker 1: I mean, these are absolutely you know, they would be

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Speaker 1: Joining us right now is Jack Divine, former chief of

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Speaker 1: ark And Group. Jack, thanks so much for being with

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Speaker 1: as a footnote, I do think there's there. It is

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Speaker 1: He's easily. Are you concerned that the Americans seem to

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Speaker 1: certainly we talk every day about US China trade discussions, tradespats, tweets, etcetera.

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Speaker 1: Broker Studios. So whether Argentina, what is the bull case

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Speaker 1: Cart So emerging markets investors like they don't have enough

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Speaker 1: to worry about, and now I have to worry about facebooks,

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Speaker 1: beats and Amazon fires. Damien Sasare, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining us. Damien is chief Emerging Markets credit strategist for

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