Posted on 02/01/2006 10:41:29 AM PST by elkfersupper
America's largest foodmaker and its biggest cigarette company for years have likened themselves to distant siblings, giants that just happened to be owned by the same parent company.
In fact, Kraft Foods Inc. and Philip Morris USA have pooled expertise in search of making more-alluring foods and cigarettes since the dawn of their corporate pairing two decades ago, a Tribune examination of tobacco-lawsuit documents has found.
Documents show Northfield-based Kraft collaborated on flavor issues with some of the same Philip Morris brain researchers who probed what gives cigarettes their kick. None of those scientists was more controversial than Frank Gullotta, a former top Philip Morris researcher whose brain experiments suggested the company knew more than it claimed about cigarettes' addictive nature.
The documents also reveal that Kraft and Philip Morris discussed investing jointly in brain scans to study how the brain processes tastes and smells. Food scientists even helped their tobacco counterparts make experimental cigarettes--working after-hours in a German coffee plant.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Universal truth.
They are the same thing as peacocks. They spread out and pretend to be bigger than they are. In all reality, they are nothing more than the scrawny screeching bird brains that you can see when they put their adornment away.
These threads are good for sorting the wheat from the chaff in the conservative movement.
My favorite was the time my wife and I were trying to squeeze in a darkened theatre aisle and we couldn't get past this one guy, so I asked him if he would stand up.
He got real indignant and said, loud enough for everyone to hear, "I am standing up."
We wiggled back out and moved down a couple of rows.
Endeavour to swim upstream, my little salmon.
Altria owns Phillip Morris and Kraft.
Thus the great conspiracy outlined in the article.
"Altria owns Phillip Morris and Kraft."
I have been to one of their datacenters in Westchester. The whole facility allows smoking in their office! They even sell cigarettes at a discount in a company store.
They had to put up signs in the actual computer rooms in english AND spanish saying no smoking - they'd have engineers come up from SA once in a while that would light up in the climate controlled areas. Woops :)
Here in Albuquerque, Hooters Restaurant fought the citywide smoking ban for awhile (even cooler).
Yes, it will be a bit of poetic justice. Unfortunately, the anti-smoking jihad does not need crullers to survive.
No need to get back into The Habit. Just an occasional indulgence will do...
Ever been asked to put out the smoke by someone who was so fat they could hardly walk?
Thanks for the advice ill haveto try that the nexttime i go to a resturant around here (evil grin) i think i know the gay dude(ette) you are talking about i think he was on one of the morning talk shows last spring i almost threw something atthe screen when he started talking
And the paper never noted that, of course.
Of course not.........even after they were called on it numerous times.
My letter stating the fact was never printed. And at the time I was an actual resident of the People's Republic of Delaware.
Look at the bigger picture?http://www.canadafreepress.com/phprint.php
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