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    Jeffrey Stephen Wigand (/ˈwaɪɡænd/; born December 17, 1942) is an American biochemist and whistleblower. He is a former vice president of research and...
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  • true story, it centers on the controversial 60 Minutes segment about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower in the tobacco industry, covering his and CBS producer...
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    cigarettes. Its former vice-president of research and development, Jeffrey Wigand, was the whistleblower in an investigation conducted by CBS news program...
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    83–95. doi:10.1016/S0378-3782(01)00140-2. PMID 11408097. "Jeffrey Wigand : Jeffrey Wigand on 60 Minutes". Jeffreywigand.com. Retrieved 30 December 2015...
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    Actor. Crowe's other performances include tobacco firm whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand in the drama film The Insider (1999) and mathematician John Forbes Nash...
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    as a police detective in the thriller L.A. Confidential (1997) and Jeffrey Wigand in the drama The Insider (1999). Crowe gained wider stardom for playing...
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  • evolution Jeffrey Wigand, former vice president of research and development at Brown & Williamson Justus Heinrich Wigand, German obstetrician Wigand (album)...
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  • tobacco. Further controversy came in 1995 when former B&W vice president Jeffrey Wigand, a research chemist, revealed that B&W had been adding chemicals to...
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    tobacco products. Tobacco politics Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement Jeffrey Wigand Nicotine marketing "Big" Big business Big Media Big Oil Big Pharma Big...
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  • Riel Hunter S. Thompson – American writer, fired from Time magazine Jeffrey Wigand – vice president of Brown & Williamson, revealed tobacco industry practices...
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    from airing a 60 Minutes interview with tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand. Bristol-Myers Squibb in its US$90 billion acquisition of Celgene, the...
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    about the 60 Minutes segment about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower in the tobacco industry. Russell Crowe portrayed Wigand, with Al Pacino playing Lowell...
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  • former B&W vice president and chemical researcher Jeffrey Wigand defected from the company. Wigand revealed the company’s secrets, saying that they had...
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    changed her car's flat tire. This was decades before whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand exposed Brown and Williamson's deliberate lacing of their tobacco with...
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    School of Journalism. Her 1996 Vanity Fair article on tobacco insider Jeffrey Wigand, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", inspired the 1999 movie The Insider, starring...
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  • Much" (article), a 1996 Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner about Jeffrey Wigand The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer...
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    Publishers. ISBN 0-7867-1435-2. See biography of the whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand McGrory, Mary (25 April 2002). "From Rome, A 'Limited Hangout'". Washington...
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    developed by tobacco plant researcher James Chaplin, working under Dr. Jeffrey Wigand for Brown & Williamson (then a subsidiary of British American Tobacco)...
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  • and was a technical adviser to The Insider, Mann's 1999 film about Jeffrey Wigand, a researcher at the tobacco company Brown & Williamson in Louisville...
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    (72nd) Kevin Spacey ‡ Lester Burnham American Beauty Russell Crowe Jeffrey Wigand The Insider Richard Farnsworth Alvin Straight The Straight Story Sean...
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  • Martin Boudot Greenwashing World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Areva Portrait: Jeffrey Wigand. 7 April 27, 2012 « Les vendeurs de maladies » (The Sellers of Illness)...
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  • presidential election committee, the tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, singer Courtney Love, and musician R. Kelly. On January 28, 2021, Palladino...
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  • Spacey – American Beauty as Lester Burnham‡ Russell Crowe – The Insider as Jeffrey Wigand Richard Farnsworth – The Straight Story as Alvin Straight Sean Penn –...
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    about Wallace caving in to corporate pressure to kill a story about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistle-blower trying to expose Brown & Williamson's dangerous business...
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  • allegations of whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand. Initially wary of a lawsuit, Hewitt sided with CBS News management and killed the Wigand story by censoring the...
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  • trials The Insider (1999) – biographical thriller drama film about Jeffrey Wigand, a whistleblower in the tobacco industry, covering his and CBS producer...
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    the precedent to force CBS not to air an interview with whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand. In 2001 Snepp published a second book, Irreparable Harm, about his...
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    ISBN 978-1-903734-98-8. Wigand, Jeffrey S. (July 2006). "ADDITIVES, CIGARETTE DESIGN and TOBACCO PRODUCT REGULATION" (PDF). Mt. Pleasant, MI 48804: Jeffrey Wigand. Archived...
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    Denzel Washington Rubin "Hurricane" Carter The Hurricane Russell Crowe Jeffrey Wigand The Insider Matt Damon Tom Ripley The Talented Mr. Ripley Richard Farnsworth...
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  • former Brown & Williamson Vice President for Research and Development Jeffrey Wigand provided information to 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman that B&W...
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