60 minutes tobacco scandal Executive Producer Jeff Fager on "60 Minutes'" whistleblower story CBS News admits Bush documents

Because the tobacco industry had lied to the American public for such a long time, and we had the goods on them

The executive producer of CBS News 60 Minutes, Bill Owens, only the third in the venerable newsmagazines history, said he will leave his job, citing an increasing lack of ability to make independent decisions based on what was right for 60 Minutes, right for the audience as parent company Paramount Global tries to move past a lawsuit filed against CBS News by President Donald Trump and secure its future in a merger with Skydance Media

In January 1993, it was announced that Thomas Sandefur, Wigands nemesis, had been named C.E.O

In 1987, B&W withdrew from the Tobacco Institute, an American tobacco lobbying group, for several years

Did you tell Larry Tisch about the Wigand interview

At the end of 1994, the Federal Trade Commission had ruled that B&W had to sell off six of its discount, or value-brand, cigarettesMontclair, Malibu, Crowns, Special 10s, Riviera, and Bull Durhamfor anti-trust reasons