Philip Morris went from selling 18 million cigarettes in 1954 to 6.5 billion in 1955, and 14 billion in 1956
The MP of Tm-2 resistance-breaking mutants ToMV-B7 has the Cys68 to Phe and Glu133 to Lys substitutions and ToMV1-2 has Glu52 to Lys and Glu133 to Lys (Meshi et al
Heres a general breakdown: Light cigarettes: 6-12mg of nicotine Regular cigarettes: 8-20mg of nicotine Unfiltered/strong cigarettes: 20+mg of nicotine However, since only a fraction of that nicotine is actually absorbed, a pack of 20 cigarettes delivers 20-40mg of absorbed nicotine to the body
From Big Tobacco quietly acquiring major food companies in the 1980s and 90s, to the explosion of ultra-processed foods and thousands of generally recognized as safe (GRAS) chemicals in our food supply, this conversation pulls back the curtain on how we got here
Even as a small child, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant was, by her own recollection, obstinate, contrary. She was born in Manhattan to parents who both worked Mad Men-style jobs at the advertising giant Grey, but when she was one year old, they gave up those careers and moved to sleepy, upstate Lake Placid
Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple
