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 How big tobacco got into you food.

"By 1990, the two largest food companies in the world were R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris. The book 'Barbarians at the Gate,' which is the preeminent book on the M&A deals of the 1980s, was about R.J. Reynolds buying Nabisco. And then you had Philip Morris buying Kraft, US Foods, some of the largest transactions in U.S. history."

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2024/10/13/big-tobacco-food-system.aspx?ui=f2c756223cee62860dc9c26dd004be8cf1f7ca32f42ad73e2622f56c34833c3a&sd=20240924&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1ReadMore&cid=20241013_HL2&foDate=false&mid=DM1643382&rid=140026912