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For Sponsors, Convention Is About Marketing as Well as Politics 

The Los Angeles host committee declined to accept money or services from tobacco companies and gun manufacturers, groups that are on the outs with Democrats on a policy level. Cigarettemaker Philip Morris was a sponsor of the Republican convention and contributed to the host committee for the 1996 Democratic convention in Chicago. The refusal of tobacco money also extended to subsidiaries of tobacco companies, such as Kraft Foods. [This graph only]

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