1:11:01
When I came on board
at B&,
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they had tried to transition
from coumarin to a similar flavor...
1:11:08
that would give the same taste
and had been unsuccessful.
1:11:11
I wanted it out immediately.
I was told...
1:11:15
that it would effect sales, so
I should mind my own business.
1:11:19
I constructed a memo to Mr. Sandefur
indicating I could not in conscience...
1:11:22
continue with coumarin
in a product that we now knew--
1:11:24
we had documentation-- was similar to
coumadin, a lung-specific carcinogen.
1:11:29
And you sent the document
forward to Sandefur?
1:11:31
I sent the document
forward to Sandefur.
1:11:33
I was told that we would
continue to work on a substitute.
1:11:37
We weren't going to remove it
as it would impact sales
and that that was his decision.
1:11:40
[Wallace] ln other words,
you are charging Sandefur...
1:11:43
and Brown &Williamson...
1:11:45
with ignoring health
considerations consciously?
1:11:50
- Most certainly.
- And on March 24,
1:11:52
Thomas Sandefur,
C.E.O. of Brown &Williamson,
1:11:56
had you fired.
1:12:00
And the reason
he gave you?
1:12:03
Poor communication skills.
1:12:08
And you wish
you hadn't come forward?
1:12:11
You wish you hadn't
blown the whistle?
1:12:15
Yeah, there are times
I wish I hadn't done it.
1:12:19
There are times I feel com--
compelled to do it.
1:12:24
If you'd asked me...
1:12:26
would I do it again,
do I think it's worth it?
1:12:33
Yeah, I think it's worth it.
1:12:52
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