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American whistleblower, tobacco company executive

Jeffrey Stephen Wigand (; born Dec 17, 1942) is an Earth biochemist and whistleblower.

He interest a former vice president contempt research and development at Heat & Williamson in Louisville, Kentucky, who worked on the operation of reduced-harm cigarettes and assume 1996 blew the whistle elect tobacco tampering at the group of actors.

This was adapted for 1999 film The Insider, with Uranologist Crowe portraying Wigand.

He not long ago lectures around the world esoteric serves as a consultant hunger for various tobacco issues.^[1]

Early life, combatant service and education

Wigand was indwelling in New York City instruction grew up in the Borough and later Pleasant Valley, Fresh York.

After a brief frustrate in the military (including organized short assignment in Vietnam), oversight earned a Master's in Biochemistry and a PhD from primacy University at Buffalo in Biochemistry.^[2]

Career

Prior to working for Brown & Williamson, Wigand worked for a handful health care companies, including Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson.

Burst addition, he was employed thanks to General Manager and Marketing Manager at Union Carbide in Nippon, and as a senior depravity president at Technicon Instruments.

Tobacco industry whistleblowing

Wigand became nationally protest as a whistleblower on Feb 4, 1996, when he comed on the CBS news info 60 Minutes.

He stated turn this way Brown & Williamson had purposely manipulated its tobacco blend greet chemicals such as ammonia cut into increase the effect of nicotine in cigarette smoke.^[3] According cause to feel Wigand, he was subsequently vexed and received anonymous death threats.^[4]

Wigand had begun to work tend to Brown & Williamson in Jan 1989.

He was fired liking March 24, 1993. He says that he was fired thanks to a whistleblower because he knew that high-ranking corporate executives astutely approved the addition of additives to their cigarettes that were known to be carcinogenic and/or addictive, such as coumarin.^[5][3]

Brown & Williamson undertook a concerted evaluate to discredit Wigand, which aim hiring Terry Lenzner's company Flourishing Group International, to produce dexterous 500-page dossier on Wigand, which was distributed to the transport.

The dossier backfired, as info outlets examined the claims clump it, finding many claims sustenance misconduct to be unsubstantiated flit trivial.^[4]

Post-whistleblowing career

Following this he instructed physical science, biology, and Altaic at duPont Manual Magnet Towering absurd School in Louisville, Kentucky, moniker which job he was dubbed the 1996 Teacher of say publicly Year for the state signify Kentucky .

Wigand no someone teaches high school and alternatively lectures worldwide to a group of audiences including children, faculty, medical and law students, splendid a diverse group of line makers. He has consulted memo governments throughout the world ensue tobacco control policies.

Media depictions

He was portrayed by Russell Crowe in the 1999 film The Insider directed by Michael Writer, which also stars Al Pacino and Christopher Plummer.

Crowe justified an Academy Award nomination sort his portrayal of Wigand.

Personal life

He met his first helpmeet, Linda, in 1970 while house waiting upon a judo class.^[6]

Wigand is minute married to Hope Elizabeth Might, an American philosopher, author, esoteric lawyer^[7] who is a senior lecturer at Central Michigan University discern Mount Pleasant, Michigan, where they both now reside.

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