GMO tobacco may already be on the market

According to GMO Compass, field trials of GM tobacco have been going on for quite some time, and have typically been used for research purposes rather than for product development. However, GM tobacco that has been genetically-engineered to resist herbicides has already been developed, and is currently being used in some brands of cigarettes (http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/database/plants/304.tobacco.html). So by the looks of it, these Argentinian farmers were strong-armed by Monsanto and Philip Morris , producer of Parliament cigarettes and Chesterfield cigarettes, to switch from their native, non-GM tobacco to some type of GM tobacco that requires the use of Roundup. This would appear to be the case, as Philip Morris hired researchers several years ago to develop GM tobacco for use in its cigarettes.