People send things as attachments to e-mail that have no business going out of the company.

If you're letting people handle tens of thousands of dollars, you usually ask for some bond on those people. Here, you usually have a collection of midlevel managers with the key to nearly everything you own, especially if you're in the business of creating intellectual property. Do you do a background check on them? Do you ask them to be bonded?

Within a year or two, filtering is probably going to become standard. I don't see people being able to get around it.

It gives this tobacco company an icon that no other tobacco company has. Their production facilities are able to use economies of scale, so it is a huge advantage for them.

This is a phenomenon that is taking over, and potentially e-mail can become the number one means of business communication,

Mail remains a very good way to market your business.