:43:01
Well, it isn't cigarettes
are bad for you.
:43:03
- Hardly new news.
- No shit.
:43:06
- What's this?
- What that is is tobacco's
standard defense.
:43:11
It's the "we don't know"
litany.
:43:13
Addiction? We believe not.
Disease? We don't know.
:43:16
We take a bunch of leaves,
we roll them together, you smoke 'em.
:43:19
After that, you're on your own.
We don't know.
:43:23
So, that
tells me nothing.
:43:25
- Besides, you'll never get
what he's got.
- Why not?
:43:28
Because of this guy's
confidentiality agreement,
:43:30
he's never gonna be able
to talk to you.
:43:32
That's not good enough.
This guy is the top scientist...
:43:35
in the number-three
tobacco company in America.
:43:37
He's a corporate officer.
You never get whistle-blowers
from Fortune 500 companies.
:43:41
This guy is
the ultimate insider.
:43:44
He's got something to say. He wants
to say it. I want it on 60 Minutes.
:43:47
- Doesn't matter what he wants.
-[Wallace]
Am l missing something here?
:43:49
-What do you mean, Mike?
-He's got a corporate secrecy agreement.
:43:52
Give me a break.
:43:54
This is a public health issue, like an
unsafe air frame on a passenger jet...
:43:58
or some company dumping cyanide
into the East River.
:44:01
Issues like that.
He can talk, we can air it.
:44:03
They've got no right to hide behind
a corporate agreement. Pass the milk.
:44:07
They don't need the right.
They got the money.
:44:09
The unlimited checkbook.
That's how Big Tobacco wins...
:44:13
every time
on everything.
:44:15
They spend you to death.
$600 million a year in outside legal.
:44:20
Chadbourne-Park, Ken Starr's firm,
Kirkland and Ellis.
:44:24
Listen, G.M. and Ford,
they get nailed...
:44:26
after 11 or 12 pickups
blow up, right?
:44:29
-These clowns have never-- I mean ever--
-[Man] Not even once.
:44:32
Not even with hundreds of thousands
dying each year from an illness...
:44:36
related to their product have ever
lost a personal injury lawsuit.
:44:39
On this case, they'll issue gag orders,
sue for breach-- anticipatory breach--
:44:43
enjoin him, you, us,
his pet dog, the dog's veterinarian,
:44:47
tie 'em up in litigation for ten
or 1 5 years, I'm telling you,
they bat a thousand.
:44:51
Every time. He knows that.
That's why he's not gonna talk to you.