Originally set to be implemented on the 1st of January this year, the smoking ban is still being debated in the halls of power here in Spain with opposition parties failing to agree and Madrid...
British American Tobacco Plc (LSE: BATS) is the second largest cigarette company in the world. It is based in London and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index with a market capitalisation of over $20 billion as of June 2005. Established in 1902, when the United Kingdom\'s Imperial Tobacco Company and the American Tobacco Company of the USA agreed to form a joint venture, the British-American Tobacco Company Ltd.