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Article: INFACT Removes Nabisco As Boycott Target: Philip Morris's Kraft Now Primary Focus of Mounting Consumer Pressure.
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- PR Newswire
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- June 16, 1999
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BOSTON, June 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The corporate watchdog organization INFACT is removing Nabisco as a target of its five-year-long Tobacco Industry Boycott which has involved millions of consumers in the US, as well as international supporters, as RJ Reynolds and Nabisco Group Holdings begin separate trading on the stock exchange this week. The breakup of RJR Nabisco as a transnational tobacco corporation marks a key milestone in INFACT's Tobacco Industry Campaign, targeting RJR Nabisco along with Philip Morris since 1993. "The decision to split RJR Nabisco's food and tobacco businesses shows that through grassroots organizing and public exposure, INFACT's Boycott helped ...