When Phillip Morris announced in late 2001 that it would change its name to Altria, then-CEO Geoffrey Bible said on CNBC, ''we wanted to bring more clarity to what seemed to be confusion in the marketplace around the name Philip Morris and actually what we did." Bible denied that the company wanted to create confusion and amnesia over the fact that the top business of Altria, despite its Kraft Foods and Miller beer holdings, remained one of humanity's most lethal products, cigarettes. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)