Testimony
- On April 14, 1994, Representative Henry Waxman (Democrat, California) convened the House Subcommittee on Health to consider more stringent regulation of tobacco products. The top executives of the cigarette companies were subpoenaed to appear at the hearing. Although each executive testified under oath that “nicotine is not addictive,” the publication of internal tobacco industry documents by The New York Times and other newspapers contradicted their sworn statements.
- Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler also testified that tobacco companies manipulate the amount of nicotine in cigarettes to maintain smokers’ addiction.
“Big Tobacco, on the Run”
Editorial
The New York Times
April 1, 1996
Tobacco company executives testify at a hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
Wire service photograph
April 1994
“A Jury Awards a Smoker With Lung Cancer $3 Billion From Philip Morris”
News article by James Sterngold
The New York Times
June 7, 2001
“Tobacco trial goes to jurors”
News article by Christopher Baughman
The Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
April, 1994
“LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE!”
Herb Block
The Washington Post
May 9, 1997
“What is the content of a cigarette”
What is the content of a cigarette company executive’s testimony?”
Jack Ohman
The Oregonian
1994
“‘I do not believe that nicotine is addictive…'”
Vic Harville
Stephens Media Group
March 5, 2002
(Likening the testimony of executives of Enron, who oversaw the largest corporate accounting fraud in US history, to that of tobacco industry executives)
“Mr. Butts Goes to Washington”
Garry Trudeau
Animation cell produced for TV advertisement by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health
1995
“Mr. Butts Goes to Washington”
Garry Trudeau
Video clip of television commercial
Massachusetts Department of Public Health and illustrated
1995