Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another point in the transcript, Wigand alleged that the company introduced into its cigarettes--at "a hundredfold the safety level"--a pipe-tobacco additive, coumarin, that it knew caused liver tumors in laboratory mice. And he described two threatening phone calls, one of which hinted at harm to his two children if he didn't "leave tobacco alone.'' B&W responded to the Daily News article by threatening legal action against CBS News for leaking it. A lawyer for the tobacco company warned that the network would be held responsible for any libel contained in the transcript...
...Minutes isn't the only place where Wigand is going--or would have gone--public. Last week he was served a subpoena in Mississippi. State attorney general Mike Moore wants him to testify in the preliminary phase of a Medicaid reimbursement suit against the tobacco industry. The case attempts to make the tobacco industry compensate state taxpayers for funds spent on the tobacco-related illness and death of indigent citizens...
...currently spend $1.2 billion dollars per year on smoke-filled treats. Even though one million teenagers get hooked on cigarettes every year and one-third of them will eventually die as a result of their addiction, the heavy hand of government should not be meddling in the lucrative tobacco industry...
Nevertheless, while Brown promises to win the ear--and funds--of Sacramento and Washington, many see him as a captive of special interests. He has had to defend the $1 million in campaign contributions he has reportedly received from the tobacco and gambling industries over the years (he stirred up more controversy when he suggested exploring the idea of opening a casino at a local naval base). Achtenberg, for her part, cannot count on a solid gay vote. Some are angry that she quit her Washington position, the highest ever held by an openly gay federal official. Indeed...
...CAMEL R.J. Reynolds takes the tobacco-toking, kid-attracting dromedary off billboards...