Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tobacco industry, under increasing government fire over allegations that it manipulated the nicotine content of its products to hook smokers, took another big hit. FDA Commissioner David Kessler told a House health subcommittee that the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. developed and grew a high-nicotine tobacco plant and used it in several of its brands. CEO Thomas Sandefur contended that cigarettes made using the plant did not contain more nicotine. Meanwhile, the Justice Department announced its own investigation of tobacco-industry practices -- including the question of whether tobacco executives misled Congress...
...Tobacco Exec Exits...
...Philip Morris chairman who tried unsuccessfully to separate the company's food and cigarette divisions announced his resignation. Michael Miles, a nonsmoker and the first company head from outside the tobacco industry, was also responsible for last year's controversial decision to slash the price of Marlboro cigarettes...
...small fortune in the wine business is to start with a large fortune. For all its aura of romance, making wine is an enterprise fraught with woes -- both man-made and natural. Government regulators have been acting lately as if wine were as much of a health hazard as tobacco. Even in sunny, bountiful California, frosts can shrivel vulnerable young grape buds. Untimely rains can ruin a harvest. And periodically, vineyards are assaulted by plagues of voracious insects...
...plagues could not have come at a worse time for the California wine trade, whose annual sales exceed $3.6 billion. The Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which regulates the wineries, appears to be following a neo-prohibitionist agenda. The bureau requires wine labels to carry warnings about drunken driving and the danger of alcohol to pregnant women. At the same time, the bureau refuses to allow vintners to promote or advertise research indicating that drinking wine in moderation has some health benefits...