60 minutes tobacco scandal Mike Wallace reflects on the story controversy | American Masters February 4, 1996: The cigarette

According to The American Lawyer, there are now nearly 200 law firms working on more than 25 major tobacco cases, and Wigand could be an expert witness in all of them

B&W told 60 Minutes at the time that they removed coumarin from their Sir Walter Raleigh aromatic pipe tobacco, but insisted it did not pose a health risk

It wasnt until a week later after Killians former secretary said she believed the memos were fake that the news division admitted they were questionable

It was the case of Jeffrey Wigand, the show not airing in its entirety at the beginning

I have been hired to do what I always do, which is to try to find out what the story is and broker the story, and Im convinced that without a single iota of doubt he is a liar. I asked Scanlon if he had ever met Wigand or posed these allegations to him

Shes one of the networks top investigators and broke the story of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal photos