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	Jeffrey Wigand
		Wigand had evidence that the tobacco industry knew that tobacco was addictive, in spite of the fact that they stated otherwise in front of Congress, and that they added carcinogenic substances to enhance the impact, considering cigarettes a "nicotine delivery device."
		Wigand could not provide for his daughter’s medical bills without coverage and in order to get his severance benefits, he signed a confidentiality agreement that he would not divulge company policy.
		One night in October 1994 when Jeffrey and Lucretia were both drinking, worried about losing their medical coverage and stressed by the harassment in their lives, they had a huge fight with the kids screaming and the police on the way.
	www.astrodatabank.com /ASWigandJeffrey.htm (2164 words)

	Jeffrey Wigand, PhD -- Speakers-Network
		At the forefront of these changes was Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, who exposed corporate deceit and wrongdoing in spite of threats to his career and the personal lives of those around him.
		Wigand joined the upper echelon of the tobacco industry in the late 1980's, hoping to create a safer cigarette for smokers around the world.
		Wigand's revelations triggered one of the most inglorious moments in the history of "60 Minutes," when CBS initially shelved an interview with him, fearing a lawsuit from his former employer, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation.
	www.speakers-network.com /speakers/speaker.asp?id=486 (559 words)

	Jeffrey Wigand: The Whistle-Blower
		Wigand doesn't have a problem with adults who choose to smoke; they know the risks.
		Today, Wigand is holding court in the library at the Randolph School, a private school in Huntsville, Alabama.
		Wigand, who has a PhD in biochemistry, is a former teacher of the year in Kentucky.
	www.fastcompany.com /articles/2002/05/wigand.html (1732 words)

	Jeffrey Wigand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jeffrey Wigand (born 1942, New York City) was vice president of research and development at Brown and Williamson in Louisville, Kentucky and is currently a teacher in Michigan.
		Wigand claimed that he was subsequently harassed and received anonymous threats on his life.
		Wigand began work for Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp. in January of 1989 and on March 24, 1993 he was fired.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeffrey_Wigand (315 words)

	Jeffrey Wigand
		Wigand talked to the media about the tobacco industry but also became a critically important source for the attorneys general Medicaid cases, the FDA and the Justice Department.
		Jeffrey Wigand, a Ph.D. in Biochemestry, was a Vice President of Research for Brown and Williamson Tobacco.
		Wigand became a high school science teacher, and he stands as the highest level whistleblower ever to emerge from within the tobacco industry.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/settlement/deal/people/wigand.html (280 words)

	Press Pack Snippets
		Lowell Bergman convinces Jeffrey Wigand to reveal the truth about the practices of his former employer, although the consequences to his career and his family might be ruinous.
		Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) was a central witness in the lawsuits filed by Mississippi and 49 other states against the tobacco industry which were eventually settled for $246 billion.
		Wigand, having wagered so much and now unable to deliver his testimony to the American people, and Bergman trying to defeat the smear campaign and fighting to force CBS to air the interview, are the two ordinary men caught in extraordinary circumstances.
	www.geocities.com /jcimelli/TIpresspsnippet.html (565 words)

	Tobacco whistle-blower critical of how some states spend settlement money (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wigand, an ardent supporter of tobacco education and prevention for youths, will address 250 health educators from across the nation on several issues, notably the use of billions of dollars of money received from settlements with the seven major tobacco companies.
		Wigand, former vice president for research and development for Brown & Williamson, one of the major tobacco companies, was the subject of the 1999 film "The Insider." Russell Crowe played the former tobacco executive.
		Wigand cites facts he's culled from the Centers for Disease Control: The number of people in the United States who die each year from tobacco-related causes is 430,000.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/80662_wigand31.shtml (749 words)

	Clark College News and Events - CELEBRATING AN EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP
		Jeffrey Wigand, the former tobacco industry executive who blew the whistle on the industry's health safety issues in a landmark 60 Minutes interview and became the basis for Russell Crowe's character in the film “The Insider,” visited Clark College on May 23 as the College launched a new Distinguished Lecture Series.
		Wigand was a vice president for research and development at Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation when he exposed the truth about what the tobacco industry really knew about the dangers of smoking.
		Wigand has said the film was meant to "expose the power that this corporate giant has on the media and the lengths it will go through to suppress the truth and cover up its fifty years of deceit, lies to the public and disregard for public health and safety."
	www.clark.edu /news_events/2006distinguishedlecturewigand.php (863 words)

	kutv.com - Battling Big Tobacco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wigand told 60 Minutes that his employer, Brown & Williamson, manipulated that nicotine fix -- not by adding nicotine, but by enhancing its effect by putting dangerous additives like ammonia into cigarettes.
		Wigand complains that most states are squandering the billions he helped them win from big tobacco.
		Jeffrey Wigand, the highest ranking tobacco whistleblower, now spends his time educating children about the dangers of tobacco.
	kutv.com /topstories/topstories_story_016213907.html (1348 words)

	Smoke Screen: Tobacco May Be Evil, But Its Latest Challenger Is No Hero by Jack Paller
		The company has also tried to undermine Wigand's credibility by revealing, for example, that he was once accused of shoplifting; that his first wife sued him for unpaid child support, and that his second and current wife once filed charges of spousal abuse against him.
		(Wigand now teaches high school in Louisville, Kentucky, at $30,000 a year.) In the other corner, Wigand would have you believe, is the power and wealth of a large and malevolent institution whose minions will use whatever old dirt they can find from his life in order to destroy him.
		In both cases Wigand was forced to resign from a high-level job; in both cases he received a severance package; and in both cases he subsequently retaliated against his former employer by claiming he had been fired for exposing or opposing unethical behavior.
	www.forces.org /articles/files/hero2.htm (1478 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| All the corporations' men (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wigand is tortured from the start: a perfectionist researcher who went to work for a tobacco giant and couldn't live with his moral compromise.
		Wigand's struggle to preserve his good name and his kids' future becomes as palpable as the quest of any action hero.
		Jeffrey knows that within his basic concept of being human, standards are often fungible, negotiable; he also knows that, at a crisis point, you are either going to betray them or you won't.
	www.salon.com /ent/col/srag/1999/11/04/mann (1923 words)

	Court TV Tobacco Litigation Documents: Tobacco Company Sues Informer
		Wigand was, in fact, terminated because during his employment Wigand misled management at B&W with half-truths to the point that B&W management lost trust in him, and because Wigand exhibited an abusive style with co-workers.
		Wigand has acknowledged that all information acquired by him during and as a result of his employment with B&W is confidential and proprietary information of B&W. Wigand has acknowledged that he owes a continuing fiduciary duty to B&W not to disclose or otherwise use such information of B&W or its affiliates.
		Wigand knew that his communications with representatives of "60 Minutes" divulged information to CBS in violation of his agreement with B&W. CBS also knew that if it were to air the filmed interview with Wigand - which was scheduled for broadcast on November 12, 1995 - B&W would suffer additional damages.
	www.courttv.com /archive/legaldocs/business/tobacco/wigand.html (3471 words)

	The Man Who Knew Too Much by Marie Brenner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wigand is trapped in a war between the government and its attempts to regulate the $50 billion tobacco industry and the tobacco companies themselves, which insist that the government has no place in their affairs.
		Wigand radiated glumness, an unsettling affect for a man who was in New York to be honored along with such other anti-smoking activists as California congressman Henry Waxman and Victor Crawford, the former Tobacco Institute lobbyist, who died soon after of throat cancer.
		Wigand is a key witness in a singular legal attempt by seven states to seek reimbursement of Medicaid expenses resulting from smoking-related illnesses.
	www.mariebrenner.com /articles/insider/man1.html (3910 words)

	Jeffrey Wigand
		In addition, Dr Wigand suffered tremendous emotional and psychological pain, which was not lessened by his wife’s serving of divorce papers during their wedding anniversary.
		Dr Wigand’s brave response resulted in the tobacco industry’s subsequent admission that smoking causes cancer, which led to the historic 1997 financial settlement between the industry and the Attorney Generals of 40 US states.
		Maybe this is why someone like Jeffrey Wigand really stands out among the faces in the crowd – he was prepared to stand up for his beliefs and uphold the truth no matter how great the costs were.
	members.tripod.com /~marklsl/Writings/insider.htm (788 words)

	PM - Tobacco industry whistleblower in Melbourne
		He's Dr Jeffrey Wigand, and in Melbourne today he's been talking about the case of the late Rolah McCabe, the Victorian woman who tried, and in the end failed, to get compensation for the cancer she got as a result of heavy smoking.
		JEFFREY WIGAND (from movie): Maybe for the audience it's just voyeurism or something to do on a Sunday night and maybe won't change a thing when people like myself and my family are left hung out to dry, used up, alone.
		JEFFREY WIGAND: The manner in which the tobacco industry, through the direction of outside lawyers, facilitated the conscious destruction of documents that in the hands of an adversary would prove their true intent.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2005/s1513113.htm (839 words)

	Deposition of Jeffrey S. Wigand
		This is the transcript of a session of the pretrial deposition of Jeffrey S. Wigand, the former research chief for Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corp. The November 29, 1995, testimony was given in a lawsuit brought by the State of Mississippi seeking reimbursement for the cost of smoking-related illnesses.
		Wigand's custody or control that regard Brown and Williamson in any fashion whatsoever, including, without limitation, any documents that may be responsive to the subpoena served in the Moore case by plaintiffs, specifically Items 1 through 11.
		Wigand to discuss as it is Brown and Williamson's privilege undertaken while he was a representative and employee of Brown and Williamson.
	www.tobacco.neu.edu /litigation/hotdocs/wigand_depo.htm (11026 words)

	TIME.com: WHERE THERE'S SMOKE... -- Feb. 12, 1996 -- Page 1
		Wigand's formerly low profile was blown sky-high in November, during a controversy over CBS' 60 Minutes' cutting back a segment on cigarettes because of fear of legal retaliation.
		Wigand was revealed to be CBS' Deep Throat, and B&W immediately slapped him with a lawsuit charging theft, fraud and breach of contract, stemming from a confidentiality agreement he had signed when he left B&W in 1993.
		Wigand also remembers vivid scenes of his employers' covering their tracks in anticipation of the very lawsuits they are now battling.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,984097,00.html (675 words)

	Quit Smoking Gradually With Proven Stop Smoking Technique
		Wigand's revelations triggered one of the most inglorious moments in the history of "60 Minutes," when CBS initially shelved an interview with him, fearing a lawsuit from his former employer, Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation.
		Because of his public disclosures about the industry's efforts to minimize the health and safety issue of tobacco use, Wigand himself was sued by Brown and Williamson, a Louisville-based organization which is owned by BAT Industries, Plc, the world's second-largest tobacco concern.
		Out side of the classroom, Wigand has held senior management positions with a number of leading health care companies, including Johnson and Johnson and Pfizer, and served as Vice President for Research and Development for Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation from December 1988 to March 1993.
	www.smokefreesociety.org /Lecture/Wigand-1.asp (602 words)

	Lowcountry NOW: Local News - Smoke-free restaurants is goal of Jeffrey Wigand lobbying 04/10/03
		Jeffrey Wigand works in a home office that overlooks the beach.
		The motion picture is the true story of Wigand, a tobacco executive-turned-whistleblower, and his relationship with "60 Minutes" producer Lowell Bergman (Pacino).
		Wigand said that an independent telephone poll by WCSC TV showed 62 percent of city adults felt smoking should not be allowed in bars and restaurants with 37 percent saying it should be allowed.
	www.lowcountrynow.com /stories/041003/LOCseniors.shtml (810 words)

	The Insider (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wigand phones Bergman telling him that his family is being terrorized and that he wants to go to New York and get on the record.
		Wigand does the interview with Wallace where he states that Brown and Williamson manipulates nicotine through ammonia chemistry to allow nicotine to be more rapidly absorbed in the lungs and therefore affect the brain and central nervous system.
		Wigand actually reported the first event, while Mann has acknowledged that the second scene was in fact fictional and created for dramatic effect, although according to the Vanity Fair article on which the movie is based, there were other death threats on Wigand not detailed in the movie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Insider_(film) (3270 words)

	NicholasKralev.com
		Jeffrey Wigand lost everything, including his family, when he took on the tobacco industry.
		Although Wigand is trying to build a new life and leave the battleground behind, he hasn’t lost his passion for speaking about the dangers of smoking, especially to children, whom, he says, the tobacco industry targets “to replace those who die and those who quit”.
		Wigand was born in the Bronx and received a PhD in biochemistry and endocrinology from the University of Buffalo in upstate New York.
	www.nicholaskralev.com /FT-wigand.html (1111 words)

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