said its Vector Tobacco subsidiary has a patent pending to a process of genetically modifying tobacco seeds to produce a nicotine-free leaf. Because nicotine is the addictive stimulant found in ...

Vector Group Ltd., the holding company for Liggett Group Inc., will begin selling the nicotine-free cigarette Quest nationwide in the third quarter. Vector also will combine the sales and ...

The Vector Group, Ltd., which owns the Liggett ... process that modifies tobacco seed to produce a virtually nicotine-free tobacco leaf. In what might be a non-addictive alternative to normal ...

NEW YORK -- Vector Group Ltd. said its new nicotine-free cigarette product will be named Quest and will be available nationwide beginning in the third quarter of 2002. Vector also announced that ...

Tobacco-industry maverick Vector Group Ltd. has developed a cigarette made from genetically modified tobacco that contains virtually no nicotine. Vector, the parent company of tiny discount ...

Vector CEO Bennett LeBow, father of the nicotine-free Quest. But the bucolic setting isn't exactly what it seems. Drying inside Dienner's barn are 10,000 pounds of genetically modified tobacco ...

(Bloomberg) -- JT Group agreed to buy discount cigarette maker Vector Group Ltd. for about $2.4 billion to expand in the US, changing tack after war closed off its path for growth in Russia.

JT Group has agreed to buy discount cigarette-maker Vector Group for about ¥348.6 billion ($2.4 billion) to expand in the U.S., changing tack after war closed off its path for growth in Russia.

Cigarette holding company Vector Group agreed to be acquired by Japan's JT Group in a $2.4 billion deal. The price to be paid in cash represents a 7% premium to Vector's closing stock price Tuesday.