Word: tobacco
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...Brandt also served as an expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice in its successful 2004 case against several high-profile tobacco companies, giving him legal experience to supplement his background in history and medicine...
...Brandt’s lectures have also helped him to gain popularity with his undergraduate students. Katherine E. O’Donnell ’10, who took his freshman seminar, “The Tobacco Pandemic,” last year, remembered a professor who made it impossible to “zone out” during class...
...Along with British royalty, beneficiaries include multinational food companies such as Nestle, Cadbury, Kraft; drug companies such as GlaxoSmithKline, and brewers like Heineken and Grolsch. Money even flows to tobacco giant Philip Morris, the oil behemoth Shell and even the airline Air France-KLM. British sugar giant Tate & Lyle alone received more than $443 million over a two-year period. TIME has recently chronicled similar patterns in U.S. farm subsidies...
...them, it didn't matter whether the danger was real; it only mattered that freshmen Democrats believed it. The aggies flew in hundreds of farmers to lobby for the status quo, and several "Blue Dog" Democrats agreed to support Pelosi's efforts to fund children's health insurance with tobacco taxes only if she supported the status quo. Berry once called Pelosi late at night to beg her not to allow strict payment limits or any cuts in subsidies. "She said, 'Marion, this stuff is complicated, but if you say it's that important, I'll take your word...
...chosen for his health initiatives targeting tobacco use, gun violence, and trans-fats, according to an HSPH press release...