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[edit] Major Edit

Took out "The US Tobacco Industry" section since all of it was unsourced. I rearranged the format so that B&W's brands are listed at the bottom. Also removed dead external link.Grifter tm (talk) 07:56, 19 January 2008 (UTC)


[edit] External Link

Is it just me or does anybody else get 404'd when trying to use the external link?

[edit] Biased much?

"A crucial and historic battle in the war between the tobacco industry and its victims"

I don't know enough to edit this, but this seems blatently biased against the tobacco industry. Boredgirl260 (talk) 18:14, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

I had the same impression. Statements such as the following seem inflammatory, and perhaps deliberately misleading:

"The tobacco interests responded by getting a Kentucky judge to issue a gag order that subjected Wigand to arrest upon returning to his home state." (Added to the article by Eyefire.)

  • How does the writer know it was "tobacco interests"?
  • There's an implication in the sentence that the judge was bought off. If that's true, then evidence should be supplied.
  • A "gag order that subjected him to arrest"? What does that mean?
  • Was Wigand, in fact, arrested? Or did he know about this, and the judge's actions were pro forma?

Much of the other biased language was added by Som08, who has not made contributions to any other Wiki article.

Articles such as this may have the opposite effect the editors intended, which is to make readers examine the side of the tobacco industry with more sympathy.

67.169.127.166 (talk) 12:38, 30 April 2008 (UTC)