SMOKIN’: Marquette grad now top guy at Philip Morris USA

[MU Avenue]

Philip Morris USA has new top executive

   By JOHN REID BLACKWELL
   Richmond Times-Dispatch
   Jun 2, 2017

   Tobacco giant Philip Morris USA has had a change in its top executive.
   
   K.C. Crosthwaite has been named president and CEO of Philip Morris USA, the cigarette manufacturing subsidiary of Henrico County-based Altria Group Inc., the nation’s top tobacco company.
   
   He replaces Clifford B. Fleet, who had served as president and CEO of Philip Morris USA since November 2013, a spokesman for the company said Friday.
   
   “Cliff informed the company of his decision to leave in April,” Altria spokesman Steve Callahan said.
   
   The company did not provide any other details.
   
   Crosthwaite’s duties also include overseeing Altria’s cigar subsidiary, John Middleton. A graduate of Marquette University with an MBA from Providence College, he joined Philip Morris USA in 1997 and has held leadership roles in brand management and sales.
   
   He previously served as vice president for strategy and business development and as vice president and general manager of the company’s Marlboro brand.
   
   Fleet, a native of Charlottesville and a graduate of the College of William & Mary, joined Philip Morris USA in 1995 and held a variety of management and leadership positions in investor relations, sales, operations, market information and finance.

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[GGGG]

1997 grad. 

[MU82]

Nice.

MO and PM are two of my favorite stocks. MO, arguably, is the greatest stock in the history of the market ... and it's still smokin' pretty darn good!

Glad to have a fellow Warrior at the helm!

[Eldon]

And he's a Providence alum. 

Looks like the Big East just found a new sponsor.

[Jockey]

What a great country!

Anyone can aspire to be the CEO of a company whose only goal is to make money dispensing death.

Hopefully, he is smart enough to not use his product.

[chapman]

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Smokin' good news!!!

[Jay Bee]

We are... Marquette

'97 we the best

[Blackhat]

What a great country!

Anyone can aspire to be the CEO of a company whose only goal is to make money dispensing death.

Hopefully, he is smart enough to not use his product.

First I agree this is a great country, even though you were being sarcastic.   We enjoy many more freedoms here which we take for granted.
 Second with freedoms come personal responsibility.  I would never sacrifice freedom because some people CHOOSE to be reckless....(no, drugs strong enough to cause hallucination and impairment should not be legal.)

Third, is there any way to avoid death?  We all kick the can and  I think some people don't want to live till they are 70 and/or they enjoy it more than the risk they assume. 

[Jockey]

First I agree this is a great country, even though you were being sarcastic.   We enjoy many more freedoms here which we take for granted.
 Second with freedoms come personal responsibility.  I would never sacrifice freedom because some people CHOOSE to be reckless....(no, drugs strong enough to cause hallucination and impairment should not be legal.)

Third, is there any way to avoid death?  We all kick the can and  I think some people don't want to live till they are 70 and/or they enjoy it more than the risk they assume.

#1. Thank you for recognizing my sarcasm.

#2. I agree with most of what you said - except for the part in parenthesis. Alcohol causes severe "impairment" and has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths - yet it is legal. If these people are free to choose their drug of choice (alcohol) despite its undeniable dangers, then the rest of us should have the same freedom whatever the choice may be.

[Spotcheck Billy]

We all kick the can and  I think some people don't want to live till they are 70 and/or they enjoy it more than the risk they assume. 

So are you stating that some people smoke cigarettes knowing it might kill them but they want to die young anyway? Color me skeptical, I would suspect the majority would love to quit smoking if only it wasn't so damn hard to quit, unfortunately they got hooked.

[Blackhat]

So are you stating that some people smoke cigarettes knowing it might kill them but they want to die young anyway? Color me skeptical, I would suspect the majority would love to quit smoking if only it wasn't so damn hard to quit, unfortunately they got hooked.

With all the info on how bad tobacco is, I think some people do make that choice consciously or subconsciously.  A lot of people don't want to be that 80 year old living in a home getting food fed to them.  Getting old is tough, I imagine.