Patrick Cines is a Marketing major in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University. He started a petition in his college called “Stand Up to Altria”, which calls on his business school to drop Altria, the parent company of Philip Morris USA and largest manufacturer of tobacco products, as a corporate partner.

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