Hugh Cullman, Longtime Philip Morris Executive Who Loved and Defended the Tobacco Business, Dies at 100

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Raised in a storied tobacco family, Cullman spent years selling Marlboros to the world, and decades at the center of the industry’s’ efforts to discredit warnings about cigarettes.

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