Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WOULD BRING DOWN the Tobacco Kings spent last Friday teaching high school in Louisville, Kentucky. While lawyers for his former employer, tobacco giant Brown & Williamson, lobbed allegations of his untrustworthiness at the press, while 60 Minutes staff members put the finishing touches on an interview with him that they planned to air on Sunday, Jeffrey S. Wigand kept mum on the one subject about which he apparently has much...
...words Wigand has already spoken--to Mike Wallace and to a panel of Mississippi lawyers who in late November heard his deposition in a suit against the tobacco industry--cannot be unsaid. As the highest-ranking tobacco insider ever to turn whistle-blower, Wigand's incendiary allegations about what tobacco executives knew and how they hid it go to the heart of some half-dozen investigations and lawsuits around the country. And if a man's true danger can be judged by how heavily his enemies are armed, then Wigand, once a vice president for research and development at Brown...
Businesses that allegedly sold cigarettes to the undercover teens, such as the Hong Kong restaurant, will face stiff fines and risk having their tobacco licenses revoked. A 25-cent tobacco tax approved in a 1992 statewide referendum both funded the sting operation and made smoking more expensive for teens...
...giving merchants and potential teen smokers a financial disincentive to sell and buy tobacco, the city saves money in the long run. The meager profits made by vendors on tobacco sales are outweighed by the societal costs of teenage smoking. Each year 400,000 people die from tobacco-related illnesses. A study published last fall found that each pack of cigarettes sold costs society 55 cents for additional health care and 14 cents for extra life insurance for smokers. Most smokers begin their habits as teenagers; by eradicating the underage cigarette problem now, the city avoids the unnecessary costs...
...result of the city's educational efforts, the only teens trying to purchase cigarettes in the future may be those sent undercover by the tobacco campaign program. To combat tobacco industry advertising campaigns which target young audiences, the city has begun anti-smoking educational programs in local youth centers and schools. Researchers have found that teens who have friends that smoke are twice as likely to light up as those that don't. We congratulate the City on its efforts to crack down on smoking and hope it will continue the push to alleviate the problems of selling cigarettes...