Corporate Vectors of Chronic Disease — Using Internal Industry Documents to Craft Counterstrategies

A curated collection of peer-reviewed research on the health impacts of ultraprocessed food consumption, food marketing, regulatory policy, and community-level interventions

Tobacco companies' influence may have extended beyond cigarettes. Research has indicated that addiction-centered methods honed in that industry also made their way into the U.S. food business.

Tobacco companies spent decades honing marketing strategies, flavor engineering and processing technologies that helped addict consumers to cigarettes. Then, in the 1980s, they started buying up large food firms and deployed these same strategies to sell more ultra-processed foods.