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...Consider the evidence: Two people living apart require 56 percent more money to sustain themselves than two living together, according to national guidelines on poverty. Children also benefit. Sociologists Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur found that one third of children with divorced parents who participated in their study dropped out of high school, while one tenth of children from intact families did so. One third of their sample’s girls whose parents divorced became teenage mothers—triple the amount of girls from intact families...
...gangsters are tobacco barons in Louisville, Ky., and network lawyers in New York City. They speak in genial or condoling tones; they have only the best interests of their corporations at heart and truly hope you see it their way. Otherwise they'll crush you. Brown & Williamson CEO Thomas Sandefur (played by Michael Gambon) has a manner as smooth as the draw of a Kool menthol into the lungs, and every bit as toxic. A CBS attorney (Gina Gershon) softly, crisply tells the lords of 60 Minutes that they must submit to a higher authority--Mammon. The byline is nothing...
DIED. THOMAS SANDEFUR, 56, Brown & Williamson's ex-chairman who, along with other tobacco chiefs, told Congress in 1994 that he did not believe nicotine was addictive; of aplastic anemia; in Louisville, Kentucky...
Wigand's allegations, while not totally surprising, have a shattering specificity. For example, he recalls many instances in which former B&W chief Thomas Sandefur acknowledged nicotine's addictive power. Federal prosecutors are weighing possible perjury charges against a number of executives, including Sandefur, who declared under oath during 1994 congressional hearings that nicotine is not addictive. They would be interested in exchanges such as this one from Wigand's Mississippi deposition: "Q: Did Mr. Sandefur have a position that if science affected sales, the science would take the back door?" Wigand responded...
Wigand also remembers vivid scenes of his employers' covering their tracks in anticipation of the very lawsuits they are now battling. He alleges, for instance, that, with Sandefur's approval, a company lawyer deleted 12 pages from the minutes of a meeting attended by Wigand and other top scientists from B&W's affiliates in which there was discussion of developing a "safer cigarette...