the public ban has zero effect on smoker numbers. if public bans worked there would be no drug addicts at all.

looks to me like its ready to climb after its latest correct.

British American Tobacco updated the market on its trading ahead of its close period on Wednesday, with the board saying it was expecting a full-year industry volume decline of around 3.5%. The FTSE 100 cigarette giant said it was anticipating it would exceed the 5.5% full-year price mix it achieved in 2017, and deliver "good" adjusted revenue and adjusted operating profit growth with a second half weighting. Full -year adjusted earnings per share growth was expected to be impacted by a currency translation headwind of around 6% for the year, at current exchange rates.

for a long time BATS performed very strongly, but both this and IMB have been pretty pathetic for some time

i haven't checked, but i recollect that the yield is pretty good

Dividend info https://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=6242921

Chief Executive buy's some https://www.moneyam.com/action/news/showArticle?id=6312632