"Like the tobacco industry before it, the sugar industry may be facing the inexorable exposure of its product as a killer--science will ultimately settle the matter one way or the other--but as Big Tobacco learned a long time ago, even the inexorable can be held up for a very long time." (Mother Jones) This article provides an inside look at the sugar "industry's campaign to frost its image, hold regulators at bay, and keep scientists from asking: Does sugar kill?" It also provides a timeline highlighting important milestones in the history of the sugar industry.
