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Jeffrey Wigand was the vice president of research and development at a tobacco industry, Brown Williamson from 1988 to 1993

1993

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

YOU ARE FIRED !!

we need to protect people's health

august 5th 1995

CBS

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

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,

february 4th 1996

CBS

documentary

due to the pressure of the medias, the interview between Bergman and Wigand is finally broadcasted

you are sentenced to pay 246 billions dollars

few months later

Wigand permited the whole world to know the tobacco industry's secret : the cigarettes are addictive and cause disease

Jeffrey Wigand was the vice president of research and development at a tobacco industry, Brown Williamson from 1988 to 1993

1993

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

YOU ARE FIRED !!

we need to protect people's health

august 5th 1995

CBS

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

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,

february 4th 1996

CBS

documentary

due to the pressure of the medias, the interview between Bergman and Wigand is finally broadcasted

you are sentenced to pay 246 billions dollars

few months later

Wigand permited the whole world to know the tobacco industry's secret : the cigarettes are addictive and cause disease

Jeffrey Wigand was the vice president of research and development at a tobacco industry, Brown Williamson from 1988 to 1993

1993

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