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Here’s How Philip Morris Designed Lunchables to Hook Generations of Kids
A new study in the American Journal of Public Health relies on internal corporate documents to chronicle how the tobacco giant applied cigarette research to its development of ultra-processed foods.
What happened
According to KQED’s source item, Here’s How Philip Morris Designed Lunchables to Hook Generations of Kids, A new study in the American Journal of Public Health relies on internal corporate documents to chronicle how the tobacco giant applied cigarette research to its development of ultra-processed foods.
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- Here’s How Philip Morris Designed Lunchables to Hook Generations of KidsKQED - 2026-06-05T18:40:55+00:00
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