Yes! I boycott all products from tobacco-owned food companies, primarily Philip Morris. I also ask others to join my boycott. :|
These assholes have known tobacco is carcinogenic and addictive for over fifty years, and they been knowingly killing my friends. I have lost seven friends in the last five years to tobacco related illnesses. I have sat with them and watched them die. It is not a pretty sight. :disgust:
Since I don't buy tobacco, my buying habits won't affect them, unless it's for something else they sell. Food is one of their major income sources, so I deprive them of that income from me and whoever joins my boycott.
A few years ago, California voters passed a very strong anti-smoking initiative. The tobacco Borg spent a record amount of money for a private interest, trying to defeat it, and still, it passed by a margin of 80% - 20%. In the very next session of the state legislature, our State Assembly passed a bill to overturn that initiative. Fortunately, there was a big enough stink about it that the State Senate didn't go along with it, but it doesn't take a lot of brains to know how much money must have changed hands to get our elected representatives to try to repeal a law enacted by 80% of the electorate.
Before you start yelling that they made their own choices and should have known better, remember that I am sixty years old. When I was a teen, cigarettes were advertised on radio, TV and print media, and glamorized in films. There were even ads stating that more doctors preferred one brand or another, and there were NO warning labels.
I watched those greedy, lying sons of whores stand up before Congress, raise their hands, and swear that tobacco was neither carcinogenic or addictive. I strongly believe every tobacco exec for the last fifty years should be tried for crimes against humanity.
Here's a list of food brands owned by Philip Morris:
Altoids mints
Athenos Cheeses
Baker's Chocolate and Coconut
Breakstone's Sour Cream, Cottage Cheese, etc.
Breyer's Ice Cream, Yogurt, etc.
Bull's-Eye barbecue and grilling sauces
California Pizza Kitchen pizza
Callard & Bowser Toffees
Calumet Baking Powder
Campbell Soups
Capri Sun
Churny Cheeses
Claussen Pickles
Cool Whip
Country Time (pseudo) Lemonade (They really should call this a kit, instead of a mix.)
Cracker Barrel cheeses
Crystal Light
D-Zerta
Di Giorno Italian foods
General Foods (all products)
Good Seasons Salad Dressing Mixes
Harvest Moon cheeses
Hoffman's cheeses
Jack's Pizza
Jello
Knudsen dairy products
Kool-Aid
Kraft Foods
La Vie De La Vosgienne candies
Louis Rich lunch meats
Maxwell House Coffee
Miller Beer
Minute Rice
Mirácoli pasta
Nabisco products
Oscar Meyer
Oven Fry Coatings
Polly-O Cheeses
Post Cereals
Ragu Sauces, etc.
Sanka Coffee
Sealtest dairy products
Seven Seas Salad Dressings
Shake 'N Bake
Starbucks (Friends don't let friends drink Starbucks)
Stove Top Stuffings, etc.
Taco Bell dinner kits, Salsa, etc.
Tang
Terry's candies
Toblerone and Tobler Candies
Tombstone Pizza
Yuban Coffee
Sweets for the sweet. DEATH to tobacco execs! :| :| :|
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