What motivated Wigand to take an executive position at a tobacco company and then five years later to denounce the industry’s efforts to minimize the health and safety issues of tobacco use?
Dr. Jeffrey Wigand is a whistle-blower who was fired from his position of vice president of research and development at Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation in 1993. He was interviewed for a segment of the CBS show 60 Minutes in August 1995, but the network made a highly controversial decision not to air the interview … Read more