Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been more clear than in the past week ? in which any hardcore vice-meister who thought they could steer clear of nicotine patches or veggie burgers was forced to think again. It was an especially bad time for smokers. They woke up on Monday morning to the news that tobacco companies plan to stick them with the bill for their multi-billion dollar lawsuit settlement, costing an extra 62 cents a pack. By Friday, CEOs from Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco were tentatively admitting that their cigarettes could have ? whisper it low ? actually killed people...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.: Marlboro Man must have fallen off his horse when he heard the news. Philip Morris, makers of Marlboro and the veritable Zeus of Big Tobacco, has effectively admitted that smoking kills...
...much of an admission as Big Tobacco is ever likely to make, but Bible still scurried to cover his tracks. Cigarettes, he added, are "certainly not pharmacologically addictive," just behaviorally so. Rather like Gummi Bears, one Philip Morris exec has said. Perhaps he should tell that to the 450,000 Americans who die each year from smoking- and secondhand smoke-related diseases. If Gummi Bears kill, it's yet to hit the headlines...
...this tactic backfire and force millions to quit the coffin nails? Not according to a US Treasury Department audit leaked over the weekend. It says Big Tobacco will recoup settlement losses ? and more ? from those who keep on puffing despite the health risks and a price hike. Only seven percent of smokers would quit if they had to pay an extra 62 cents per pack, according to the report...
...White House, meanwhile, has announced that it will try to offset a $50 billion tobacco tax break that Congress slipped into the Federal budget ? by adding another $50 billion on the tobacco settlement. Clinton has also threatened more action against the industry if teen smoking target aren't reached. Not that Big Tobacco is worried ? after all, their customers seem willing to put up with anything...