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Health Insurers Have Billions in Tobacco Stocks

by Deborah Franklin

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June 3, 2009

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graph of insurance industry holdings in tobacco companies as of March 26, 2009
/New England Journal of Medicine, 2009

What's in your portfolio? Big Insurance has a lot of Big Tobacco

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