Where there's smoke....Where There's Smoke
In 1979, 551,000 Americans died of coronary heart disease coronary heart disease: see coronary artery disease. coronary heart disease or ischemic heart disease Progressive reduction of blood supply to the heart muscle due to narrowing or blocking of a coronary artery (see atherosclerosis). and 403,000 died of cancer. Last year heart disease killed 498,000 and cancer 496,000. In other words Adv. 1. in other words - otherwise stated; "in other words, we are broke" put differently : Cancer is about to overtake heart disease as our number-one killer. Yet the death rate from most cancers is stable or declining. So what gives? Lung cancer, that's what. Its rates are increasing. Meanwhile, cigarette manufacturers are using their billions in profits to sanitize To remove sensitive data from an information system, a database or an extract from a database. See sensitive. their image. They're everywhere--sponsoring art exhibits, defending the Bill of Rights...and selling food. Everybody knows that Philip Morris makes Marlboro. But did you know that it also makes Maxwell House coffee? Or Breyer's ice cream? Or Kraft cheese? R.J. Reynolds made Winston and Camel before it gobbled up Nabisco. Now it also makes Planters nuts and Grey Poupon mustard. Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco would like you to believe that diversification will help wean wean (wen) to discontinue breast feeding and substitute other feeding habits. wean v. 1. To deprive permanently of breast milk and begin to nourish with other food. 2. them away from making cigarettes. Wrong. Cigarettes are just too profitable. Tobacco accounts for just forty percent of Philip Morris' net sales, but two-thirds of its profits. Here's a list of the major foods that are produced by subsidiaries of Philip Morris (PM) and RJR Nabisco (RJR RJR R.J. Reynolds RJR Thorny Skate (FAO fish species code) ). ALCOHOL Lowenbrau (PM) Meister Brau (PM) Miller, Miller Lite (PM) Milwaukee's Best (PM) BEVERAGES Country Time (PM) Crystal Light (PM) Kool-Aid (PM) Tang (PM) BREADS & BREADINGS Lender's frozen bagels (PM) Orowheat (PM) Shake 'n Bake Shake Bake is owned by Kraft Foods. It is a flavored coating for chicken (and sometimes pork) which is applied by placing chicken pieces in a bag containing the coating, closing the bag, and shaking. The coated chicken is then baked in a medium oven until done. breading (PM) CANDY & SNACKS Bonkers! (RJR) BreathSavers (RJR) Bubble Yum bubble gum (RJR) Care*free sugarless gum (RJR) Chuckles (RJR) Fruit Striped gum & Fruit Juicers (RJR) Life Savers (RJR) Mister Salty pretzels (RJR) Nabisco cookies & crackers (RJR) Pearson's candies (RJR) Planters nuts (RJR) CANNED AND PACKAGED MEALS Impromptu shelf-stable meals (PM) Lunchables (PM) Ortega Mexican foods (RJR) Ronzoni Italian entrees (PM) Zappetites microwave snacks (PM) CEREALS Shredded Wheat & all other Nabisco cereals (RJR) Grape-Nuts & all other Post cereals (PM) CHEESES Cheez Whiz (PM) Cracker Barrel (PM) Dairylea (PM) Easy Cheese (RJR) Kraft (PM) Light N' Lively (PM) Philadelphia Brand (PM) Polly-O (PM) Velveeta (PM) COFFEE Brim (PM) Gen. Foods Int'l Coffees (PM) Gebalia (PM) HAG (PM) Maxim (PM) Maxwell House (PM) Sanka (PM) Yuban (PM) CONDIMENTS A.1. Steak Sauce (RJR) Brer Rabbit syrup & molasses molasses, sugar byproduct, the brownish liquid residue left after heat crystallization of sucrose (commercial sugar) in the process of refining. Molasses contains chiefly the uncrystallizable sugars as well as some remnant sucrose. (RJR) Claussen pickles (PM) Good Seasons salad dressing (PM) Grey Poupon mustard (RJR) Log Cabin syrups (PM) Miracle Whip (PM) Regina wine vinegars (RJR) Seven Seas salad dressing (PM) Vermont Maid syrup (RJR) Wright's liquid smoke (RJR) DESSERTS & SWEETS Baker's chocolate & cocoa (PM) Breyer's ice cream (PM) D-Zerta gelatin gelatin or animal jelly, foodstuff obtained from connective tissue (found in hoofs, bones, tendons, ligaments, and cartilage) of vertebrate animals by the action of boiling water or dilute acid. & pudding (PM) Entenmann's cakes & pastries (PM) Frusen Gladje ice cream (PM) Jell-O (PM) Knudsen dairy products (PM) Light N' Lively ice milk (PM) My*T*Fine puddings & pie fillings (RJR) Royal pudding & gelatin (RJR) Sealtest ice cream products (PM) Toblerone chocolates (PM) FAST FOOD Hardee's (Imasco (*1)) FROZEN FOODS Birds Eye (PM) Budget Gourmet (PM) Jell-O frozen pops (PM) Tombstone frozen pizza (PM) LUNCHEON MEATS Louis Rich (PM) Oscar Mayer (PM) MISCELLANEOUS Calumet Calumet, region, United States Calumet (kăl`y  mĕt'), industrialized region of NW Ind. and NE Ill., along the south shore of Lake Michigan. baking powder (PM) College Inn broths (RJR) Davis baking powder (RJR) Milk-Bone dog biscuits (RJR) Ronzoni pasta (PM) SEAFOOD Louis Kemp seafood products (PM) SIDE DISHEs Minute Rice (PM) Stove Top stuffing This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. (PM) SPREADS & DAIRY PRODUCTS Blue Bonnet margarine (RJR) Breakstone's butter & cottage cheese (PM) Breyer's yogurt (PM) Fleischmann's margarine & Egg Beaters (RJR) Light N' Lively cottage cheese & yogurt (PM) TOPPINGS Cool Whip (PM) Dream Whip (PM) (*1) B.A.T. Industries makes Viceroy and Kool. It also owns 40% of Imasco Ltd., which owns Hardee's. |
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