Loss Contingency, Damages Recoverable, Value

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Loss Contingency, Number of Cases With Court Dates Set

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Loss Contingency, Pending Claims, Consolidated For Pre-Trial Purposes, Number

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Number Of Third Party Lawsuits

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Amount awarded to other party in judgment or settlement of litigation.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Number of claims settled.

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Number of plaintiffs that have filed claims pertaining to a loss contingency.

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Number of pending claims pertaining to a loss contingency.

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Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 450
-SubTopic 20
-Section 50
-Paragraph 4
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=121557415&loc=d3e14435-108349

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Contingencies (E-vapor Product Litigation and IQOS Litigation) (Details)	1 Months Ended	6 Months Ended	25 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2020 plantiff case	Jun. 30, 2021 USD ($) claim lawsuit	Apr. 30, 2020 USD ($)	Jul. 26, 2021 claim	Jul. 24, 2020 claim	Jul. 26, 2019 claim
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Loss contingency, number of cases with set court dates \| case	4
E-vapor Litigation [Member]
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of cases pending					621	0
Number of plaintiffs \| plantiff	12
Number of third party lawsuits \| lawsuit		3
IQOS
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Loss contingency, damages recoverable, value \| $			$ 0
Subsequent Event [Member] \| E-vapor Litigation [Member]
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of cases pending				2,626
Class Action Lawsuit [Member] \| Subsequent Event [Member] \| E-vapor Litigation [Member]
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of cases pending				54
Number of pending claims, consolidated for pre-trial purposes				29
Pending Individual Lawsuits [Member] \| Subsequent Event [Member] \| E-vapor Litigation [Member]
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of cases pending				2,318
Pending Lawsuit Filed By School District [Member] \| Subsequent Event [Member] \| E-vapor Litigation [Member]
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of cases pending				254
Settled Litigation [Member] \| E-vapor Litigation [Member]
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Loss contingency, claims settled, number		1
Litigation settlement \| $		$ 40,000,000