User:Olivier/Worksheet/The Waxman Hearings

Date: April 14, 1994

From 1980 to 1994, Rep. Henry Waxman served as Chairman of the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and the Environment.

Witnesses

• William Campbell, President & CEO, Philip Morris USA
• James W. Johnston, Chairman and CEO, R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
• Joseph Taddeo, President, U.S. Tobacco Company
• Andrew H. Tisch, Chairman and CEO, Lorillard Tobacco Company
• Edward A. Horrigan, Chairman and CEO, Liggett Group Inc.
• Thomas E. Sandefur, Chairman and CEO, Brown & Williamson
• Donald S. Johnston, President and CEO, American Tobacco Company
• Chaired by: Henry Waxman (D-CA)

Excerpts

Rep. Waxman: Mr. Tisch, I want to move to you for a moment. In a deposition last year you were asked whether cigarette smoking causes cancer. Your answer was "I don't believe so." Do you stand by that answer today?

Mr. Tisch: I do, sir.

Rep. Waxman: Do you understand how isolated you are in the belief from the entire scientific community?

Mr. Tisch: I do, sir.

Aftermath

The 1996 Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine was presented to James Johnston of R.J. Reynolds, Joseph Taddeo of U.S. Tobacco, Andrew Tisch of Lorillard, William Campbell of Philip Morris, Edward A. Horrigan of Liggett Group, Donald S. Johnston of American Tobacco Company, and Thomas E. Sandefur, Jr., chairman of Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company, for their unshakable discovery, as testified to the U.S. Congress, that nicotine is not addictive.

See also

• Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement
• Jeffrey Wigand

External links

• Inside the Tobacco Deal: hearing of the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
• Hilts, Philip J. (April 15, 1994). "Tobacco Chiefs Say Cigarettes Aren't Addictive". The New York Times.
• Testimony of the 7 CEOs of Big Tobacco on Jeffrey Wigand's website
• Just how bad is being a CEO in big tobacco?