Youth Tobacco Prevention
Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, former vice president of Research & Development at Brown & Williamson Tobacco, visited California schools recently with a strong no-smoking message. Wigand was a first-hand witness to the moral and legal games of tobacco companies in the early 1990s. Wigand is the central figure of "The Insider," the 1999 Oscar-nominated movie that tells his story of disillusionment and big-stakes corporate retribution. Russell Crowe, Al Pacino, and Christopher Plummer were critically acclaimed for their performances in the film.

In San Diego, Orange County, San Bernardino, and other appearances through the state, Wigand told students that they're the target of hundreds of million dollars of promotional money, especially upon reaching college age. He regaled students with a horrifying list of harmful ingredients in cigarettes. "Most things in a cigarette you can't put in a sanitary landfill," Wigand said. "I plant to continue to speak until I put them out of business," Wigand said of the tobacco companies.


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