| RICHMOND,
VA - April 17 - The following was released today by Essential
Action:
Today, Licensed
to Kill, Inc, the world's newest multinational tobacco company,
publicly announced its incorporation with the launch of the
company's website: www.licensedtokill.biz.
Licensed
to Kill, Inc., was officially incorporated in the state of Virginia
on March 19, 2003. The company's purpose, as stated in its articles
of incorporation, is "the manufacture and marketing of
tobacco products in a way that each year kills over 400,000
Americans and 4.5 million other persons worldwide."
The name
"Licensed to Kill" derives from the Latin words 'licere'
and 'caedere,' meaning 'permission to kill.' The name connotes
an enterprise that is fully authorized by the state to aim for
peak performance and constant improvement in killing for profit.
The new
company is banking on its brutal honesty to spare itself from
the multitude of lawsuits currently plaguing other companies
within the industry. Many of these lawsuits have centered on
the tobacco industry's long history of lies and deception about
the deadly nature of the business.
Licensed
to Kill, Inc. thanks the Commonwealth of Virginia's State Corporation
Commission for granting it permission to exist, noting that
the societal restrictions on serial killing luckily do not apply
to corporations.
View a certified
copy of Licensed to Kill, Inc.'s articles of incorporation at:
www.licensedtokill.biz/articles.pdf.
For more
information about Licensed to Kill, Inc., including its line
of products, visit our website at: www.licensedtokill.biz.
EDITORS:
Licensed to Kill, Inc. was incorporated on March 19, 2003, as
a project of Essential Action, a corporate accountability group
based in Washington, DC.
Licensed
to Kill, Inc. was launched to draw attention to the assistance
state governments give to the formation and operation of tobacco
companies, and to the nature of the industry behind the global
epidemic of tobacco-related death and disease, which currently
kills 4.9 million people worldwide annually. For more information:
www.licensedtokill.biz/critics.html.
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