California Department Of Consumer Affairs

In the late 1980s Jeffery Wigand joined the tobacco industry with aspirations of creating a safer cigarette for smokers around the world. While working on this project became a vice president for research and development for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation from December 1988 to March 1993.

At the end Wigands' project was scrapped. After five years, vice president for research and development, Wiggins became aware of the inner workings of the tobacco industry.

The feeling was becoming part of the problem, Wigand sent a letter to his boss, describing his concern that he had never seen such a corporate shuffle. As a result, Wigind was fired for difficulties in communication March 1993.

During Wigand did not come forward with their knowledge about the tobacco companies. Then he saw the tobacco executives, including Tommy Sandefur, his former boss, testifing Congress that nicotine is not addictive. Wigand was convinced that he must do something and started talking to the FDA.

He made the truth known to the public about the industry disregard for health and safety during the interview with 60 Minutes who was forced to action against tobacco companies.

Wigand stated that the company was misleading consumers about the highly addictive nature of nicotine, as it ignores the research suggests that some of the additives used to enhance the flavor of causing cancer, and that it encoded and concealed documents that can be used against company in lawsuits brought by sick or dying smokers.

Wigand brought death threats against him and his family and the campaign of the tobacco companies to destroy it. His wife divorced him, and his two daughters left him to live with her mother. Wigind was amazed, but he felt a greater need to be pressing.

Wignad went to help the FDA to bring together thousands of pages of explicit evidence that cigarettes were nothing more than a drug delivery device and delivered at the end of the curse of the testimony in court that eventually led to the tobacco industry $ 246 billion litigation settlement.

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