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Seattle drag queen Ladie Chablis will be the in-arena host for the skills competition, with DJ Lucky Strike and Orion Entertainment spinning tunes all weekend long and special appearances from pro players Jessica Platt, Luke Prokop, JT Brown and Andrew Ference.

The maker of Lucky Strike and Pall Mall cigarettes says its smoking business in the US is dying out.

The company wrote down $31.5 billion of the value of Lucky Strike and other U.S. cigarette brands.

British American Tobacco, the cigarette giant whose portfolio includes Camel and Lucky Strike, said Wednesday that it would write down the value of its brands by 25 billion pounds, or $31.5 billion, because of the slowing economy and a shift toward vaping among smokers.

It sells Rothmans and Lucky Strike cigarettes, and is the most successful of the big western tobacco companies when it comes to the UK's booming market for disposable vapes, thought to be worth at least £3bn a year.