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The tax subsidy is a product of a different era. America's health-care system, in which workers get health insurance mainly through employers, began to evolve during World War II, when labor was scarce and wages were controlled. Employers started to compete for workers by offering health insurance, which...
In 1980 DeNoble and Mele were hired to find a substitute for nicotine that would have a less harmful effect on the heart. Philip Morris insisted on intense secrecy, so much so that laboratory rats were smuggled into the Richmond, Virginia, facility sometimes under cover of night. The researchers were...
As a result, a safer cigarette may have been lost. The researchers say they developed the nicotine substitute they were hired to find: 2'methylnicotine, which supposedly provides a nicotine-like high without distressing the heart. The discovery was never pursued.
Antismoking activists gained new ammunition when two former scientists for Philip Morris testified before a House panel that the cigarette company had suppressed research on the effect of nicotine on rats. According to the scientists, Philip Morris refused to allow them to publish studies on the addictive potential of nicotine...
10) They have heart. One of Brooks' cardinal rules: Let's not be afraid of emotion. The strongest episodes are those (like "Lisa's Substitute," "Homer Alone," "Like Father, Like Clown" and "Bart the Lover") that reveal the bedrock fondness, desperation and loyalty that bond this or any other frazzled...