--British American Tobacco top-shareholders are urging the new Chief Executive Tadeu Marroco to restart share buyback programs in order to boost the group's stock price and speed up the return of capital to shareholders, the Financial Times reports.

--The FTSE 100 cigarette maker's share price fell 20% in the current year, following a $635 million penalty for selling cigarettes to North Korea despite sanctions and amid a sluggish transition to vapes and heated tobacco products, FT reports.

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