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...unnerving," says Alfarano, who worked with Wigand at two medical-device companies in the 1980s and who gave the men no information. But when he learned about the thick dossier the detectives had managed to compile about Wigand, a former vice president of Brown & Williamson and the highest-ranking tobacco executive ever to turn whistle blower, he was appalled. "It hit me like a silver bullet," says Alfarano. "[B&W] can deal with one or two defectors, but I think [they wanted] to send a signal to anybody else who's thinking about testifying...
...Wigand now teaches science and Japanese. The investigators may have thought they would turn Wigand's fellow educators against him. They were wrong. "Not all of us agree with what [Wigand] is doing," says Barbara Fendley, who supervises Wigand at DuPont Manual High School and is married to a tobacco farmer. "But we all support his right to do what he thinks is right. We're bigger than Brown & Williamson...
...date, however, no one has ever bested the nearly $50 billion-a-year tobacco industry, which historically has been willing to spend whatever it takes to neutralize its enemies. In all the years of litigation against cigarette makers, they have yet to pay out even a nickel in damages...
...business entertaining at the track, whether they rent a box above the speedway or paint their logos across the hoods of 720-h.p. racers. "Things that women are involved in purchasing are showing up a lot more," notes Brown. Traditional sponsors, such as Valvoline and Skoal chewing tobacco, are increasingly sharing side-panel space with such brands as Tide, Maxwell House and the Family Channel...
...cable executives at the end of February. The antinetwork rhetoric from many reformers sounds strikingly like that directed against another industry charged with making a harmful product. "The TV industry has to be socially responsible," says Harvard child psychiatrist Dr. Robert Coles. "We're now going after the tobacco companies and saying, 'Don't poison people.' It seems to me, the minds of children are being poisoned all the time by the networks. I don't think it's a false analogy...