Since nearly the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have all hoped for an end to the harsh restrictions and a return to the way of life we had previously taken for granted. This new way of life, however, has led to some notable changes in the way we approach virtually everything.

There may have been no more reviled corner of the stock market in its history than tobacco stocks were in the late 1990s.  The industry was besieged by countless multi-billion lawsuits from almost every state in the union.