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Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation was a U.S. tobacco company and a subsidiary of multinational British American Tobacco that produced several popular cigarette brands.It became infamous as the focus of investigations for chemically enhancing the addictiveness of cigarettes.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) attempted to regulate tobacco products. Tobacco companies, including Brown & Williamson and Philip Morris Companies (among others), challenged the regulations. [1] The District Court granted in part and denied in part the plaintiff's claim. The Circuit Court reversed, ruling for the tobacco company.
BATUS was created by British American Tobacco as a subsidiary to oversee the U.S. holdings in 1980. [4] [5] [6] Through its BATUS unit, BAT diversified its tobacco holdings with acquisitions in the retail sector, [7] paper sector (through the acquisition of Appleton Paper Company [3]) and insurance through the acquisition of Farmers Insurance Group.
Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 509 U.S. 209 (1993), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court required that an antitrust plaintiff alleging predatory pricing must show not only changes in market conditions adverse to its interests, as a threshold matter, but must show on the merits that (1) the prices complained of are below an appropriate measure of its ...
The whistle-blower told Daynard about the documents, which included an admission from a Brown & Williamson lawyer that the company was in the business of selling “an addictive drug.”
Jeffrey Stephen Wigand (/ ˈ w aɪ ɡ æ n d /; born December 17, 1942) is an American biochemist and whistleblower.. He is a former vice president of research and development at Brown & Williamson in Louisville, Kentucky, who worked on the development of reduced-harm cigarettes and in 1996 blew the whistle on tobacco tampering at the company.
Y1 is a strain of tobacco that was cross-bred by Brown & Williamson to obtain an unusually high nicotine content. It became controversial in the 1990s when the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used it as evidence that tobacco companies were intentionally manipulating the nicotine content of cigarettes. [1]
Brown & Williamson was so cold it began sponsoring the Newport Jazz Festival in 1975, rebranding it the Kool Newport Jazz Festival in 1980 so people would equate that form of Black music with its ...