'Smoking kills’: Russia’s Medvedev comments on Japan Tobacco stock nosedive
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The company's stock plunged by a record 19.3% after its Russian assets were placed under temporary administration managed by a Russian firm
MOSCOW, November 6. /TASS/. Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev pointed to the record decline of Japan Tobacco after the company’s Russian assets were transferred to external management, quipping that "smoking kills."
"Japan Tobacco’s stock plunged by a record 19.3% after its Russian assets were placed under temporary administration managed by a Russian firm following the Russian president’s decree," Medvedev commented on the negative price chart of the company from Japan, a jurisdiction that is unfriendly to Russia, in an English-language post on his account on X.
"That’s something," he wrote. "And smoking kills anyway," he added.