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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...
With billion-dollar class actions and tales of perjury by top execs, cigarette makers are feeling the heat. Their nightmare scenario is that smoking will be outlawed. Even if it were banned, which is unlikely, the tobacco industry wouldn't have to go up in smoke. The much maligned plant need not be rolled and lighted. Here are other forms it can take...
Fraction-1, a tasteless, odorless protein found in all green vegetables but in especially high concentrations in tobacco. It has a greater nutritional value than the milk protein casein and can be used to fortify cosmetics, food and soft drinks...
...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...