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- after discovering that coumarin was addictive, Wigand tried to remove it from cigarettes but was fired because his superiors would rather ensure profits than care for people's health
- 1993
- Jeffrey Wigand was the vice president of research and development at a tobacco industry, Brown Williamson from 1988 to 1993
- we need to protect people's health
- YOU ARE FIRED !!
- nicotine is addictive
- although he first hesitated due to threaths, Wigand did an interview with Lowell Bergman for CBS to blow the whistle on dangers of cigarettes.few weeks later, CBS won't broadcast it because of a confidentiality agreement with B W and the power of the cigarettes industry
- august 5th 1995
- CBS
- meanwhile
- in a trial where a prosecutor confronts the tobacco industry in order to make them pay for the health costs of tobacco patients, he testifies about his experience
- the tobacco industry is investigating and spreading false rumours about him and his family for several months in order to discredit his testimony,
- few months later
- february 4th 1996
- Wigand permited the whole world to know the tobacco industry's secret : the cigarettes are addictive and cause disease
- you are sentenced to pay 246 billions dollars
- due to the pressure of the medias, the interview between Bergman and Wigand is finally broadcasted
- CBS documentary
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