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Article: Is Your Thanksgiving Dinner Smoking?: Activists Boycott Philip Morris's Kraft Foods.
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- PR Newswire
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- November 23, 1999
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BOSTON, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Kraft Foods may be promoting itself as a "Thanksgiving Holiday Helper" on its website and urging consumers to make its products part of their holiday meals, but thousands of US households will be boycotting the brand this Thanksgiving. Led by grassroots corporate watchdog organization INFACT, the boycott is part of a nationwide campaign to change the deadly business practices of Kraft's parent corporation: Philip Morris, the world's largest tobacco company and the maker of Marlboro.
"You won't find Kraft Macaroni & Cheese on my Thanksgiving table," says Mildred M. Wolff of Cokato, Minnesota. "I'm distressed by how Philip Morris ...