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...former chief of research at Brown & Williamson, the nation's third largest cigarette manufacturer, accused his company's former chairman of perjury. In a pretrial deposition obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Jeffrey Wigand charged that in 1994 chairman Thomas Sandefur told Congress he did not believe nicotine was addictive when in fact he was saying privately that his company was "in the nicotine-delivery business." Wigand also accused B&W lawyers of concealing potentially damaging research. The disclosure prompted cbs News to air on Friday part of a 60 Minutes interview with Wigand that it had declined to broadcast...
According to the New York Daily News, the 60 Minutes transcript shows that Wigand charged that B&W abandoned its plans to develop a safer cigarette and altered documents to delete any reference to the aborted effort. He also claims that Thomas Sandefur, the company's CEO, perjured himself before a congressional committee when he denied knowledge of how cigarettes were used to deliver nicotine...
...that it manipulated the nicotine content of its products to hook smokers, took another big hit. FDA Commissioner David Kessler told a House health subcommittee that the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. developed and grew a high-nicotine tobacco plant and used it in several of its brands. CEO Thomas Sandefur contended that cigarettes made using the plant did not contain more nicotine. Meanwhile, the Justice Department announced its own investigation of tobacco-industry practices -- including the question of whether tobacco executives misled Congress...
...following men have been appointed agents of the Boston Good Government League to watch the precinct polls of the eighth ward primaries in Boston today: S. E. Morison 1G., E. T. Wallinder 1L., J. F. Sandefur 2L., G. M. Glover '11, W. J. Mack 1L., A. E. Pinanski 1L., C. R. Joy '08, W. S. Blakeslee '09, H. S. Barker '10, H. P. Fowler '10, P. M. Stone '10, R. Lothrop '09, W. Hanson '09, J. H. Broderick 1L., E. D. Adair '09, K. W. Lamson 1L., I. H. Fairfield '09, W. M. Cole...