You can see the original date this was published in the Delaware Gazette. A couple years later Ed Koren did the same gag in the New Yorker and Rick Detorie did a One Big Happy strip with the same gag. It happens!
You could’ve labeled it “knew the risks” and “sanctimonious jerks” and been accurate, too. (I used to smoke. I violently disapprove of haranguing others in any way, shape, or form.)
Jeffrey Wigand: Part of the reason I’m here is that I felt that their representations clearly misstated – at least within Brown and Williamson’s misrepresentations – clearly misstated what is common language within the company: “We are in the nicotine delivery business.”
Mike Wallace: And that’s what cigarettes are for.
Jeffrey Wigand: A delivery device for nicotine.
Mike Wallace: A delivery device for nicotine. Put it in your mouth, light it up, and you’re gonna get your fix.
Jeffrey Wigand: You’re gonna get your fix.
Mike Wallace: You’re saying that Brown and Williamson manipulates and adjusts the nicotine fix not by artificially adding nicotine but by enhancing the effect of nicotine through the use of elements such as ammonia?
Jeffrey Wigand: The process is known as “impact boosting”. While not spiking nicotine, they clearly manipulate it. There was extensive use of this technology known as “ammonia chemistry”. It allows for the nicotine to be more rapidly absorbed in the lung and therefore affect the brain and central nervous system. The straw that broke the camel’s back for me, and really put me in trouble with Sandefur, was a compound called coumarin. When I came on board at B. and W., they had tried the transition from coumarin to a similar flavor that would give the same taste, and had been unsuccessful. I wanted out immediately. I was told that it could affect sales, so I should mind my own business. I constructed a memo to Mr. Sandefur indicating I could not in conscience continue with coumarin, a product we now know and we had documentation was similar to coumarin, a lung-specific carcinogen.
Mike Wallace: And you sent the documents to Sandefur?
Jeffrey Wigand: I sent the documents forward to Sandefur. I was told that we would continue to work on a substitute but we weren’t going to remove it as it would impact sales, and that was his decision.
Mike Wallace: In other words, you were charging Sandefur and Brown and Williamson with ignoring health considerations consciously?
Leroy about 9 years ago
Clever!
Ubintold about 9 years ago
Holy smokes.
PICTO about 9 years ago
The death rate for smokers is the same asit is for non-smokers…one per person…
Cameron1988 Premium Member almost 9 years ago
yep
neverenoughgold almost 9 years ago
Trying to make a point, are we Dan?
Dan Collins creator almost 9 years ago
You can see the original date this was published in the Delaware Gazette. A couple years later Ed Koren did the same gag in the New Yorker and Rick Detorie did a One Big Happy strip with the same gag. It happens!
Corpse Horn Light Premium Member almost 9 years ago
You could’ve labeled it “knew the risks” and “sanctimonious jerks” and been accurate, too. (I used to smoke. I violently disapprove of haranguing others in any way, shape, or form.)
neverenoughgold almost 9 years ago
Jeffrey Wigand: Part of the reason I’m here is that I felt that their representations clearly misstated – at least within Brown and Williamson’s misrepresentations – clearly misstated what is common language within the company: “We are in the nicotine delivery business.”
Mike Wallace: And that’s what cigarettes are for.
Jeffrey Wigand: A delivery device for nicotine.
Mike Wallace: A delivery device for nicotine. Put it in your mouth, light it up, and you’re gonna get your fix.
Jeffrey Wigand: You’re gonna get your fix.
Mike Wallace: You’re saying that Brown and Williamson manipulates and adjusts the nicotine fix not by artificially adding nicotine but by enhancing the effect of nicotine through the use of elements such as ammonia?
Jeffrey Wigand: The process is known as “impact boosting”. While not spiking nicotine, they clearly manipulate it. There was extensive use of this technology known as “ammonia chemistry”. It allows for the nicotine to be more rapidly absorbed in the lung and therefore affect the brain and central nervous system. The straw that broke the camel’s back for me, and really put me in trouble with Sandefur, was a compound called coumarin. When I came on board at B. and W., they had tried the transition from coumarin to a similar flavor that would give the same taste, and had been unsuccessful. I wanted out immediately. I was told that it could affect sales, so I should mind my own business. I constructed a memo to Mr. Sandefur indicating I could not in conscience continue with coumarin, a product we now know and we had documentation was similar to coumarin, a lung-specific carcinogen.
Mike Wallace: And you sent the documents to Sandefur?
Jeffrey Wigand: I sent the documents forward to Sandefur. I was told that we would continue to work on a substitute but we weren’t going to remove it as it would impact sales, and that was his decision.
Mike Wallace: In other words, you were charging Sandefur and Brown and Williamson with ignoring health considerations consciously?
Jeffrey Wigand: Most certainly.
Carl Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Funny I thought the nonsmokers died at the same rate as smokers, 100%.