Word: balliner
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...allies believe Wigand is just the man to bring a jury into tobacco's inner sanctum. "Wigand can personalize the story and give...firsthand evidence...as to how the industry was conducting its business and what its motivations were," says Scott Ballin of the Coalition on Smoking OR Health, which includes the American Cancer Society, the American Lung Association and the American Heart Association. "The efforts that they are going through to discredit him are directly proportional to the damage they know his testimony can do," says Richard Scruggs, the Mississippi lawyer who is shepherding Wigand through the courts...
...Scott Ballin...
Antismoking activists are growing more alarmed -- and more aggressive. "I can't think of another product that, faced with the scientific evidence which is associated with tobacco, could remain a legal product on the market and almost completely exempt from regulation," says Scott Ballin, executive director of the Washington-based Coalition on Smoking OR Health...
...wanted his car and ordered him into the trunk. The detective broke away and leaped over the railing of the police parking structure, falling one story below as the carjackers fired at him. He wasn't hit, but he suffered lacerations to his forehead in the fall. Says Randy Ballin, head of the California Highway Patrol's Los Angeles auto-theft unit, who investigated the case: "These people don't care who you are. They don't care that you are a cop and may be armed. They have nothing to lose. The criminal-justice system is not a deterrent...