Films

  • The insider
  • 8 Jun 2016
  • By German Anitua Azkarate
  • Rating:( 2650 votes )

The insider

Description

"The Insider" is the story of two whistle blowers. The first, Dr. Jeffrey Wigand, was a highly placed tobacco industry executive. (Dr. Wigand has a Ph.D. in biochemistry and is not a medical doctor.) The tobacco industry at that time denied that nicotine was addictive and claimed that the evidence that tobacco use impaired health was inconclusive. In 1995, Dr. Wigand was the first tobacco company executive to come forward with information that, for decades, the tobacco companies had known that smoking caused cancer and that cigarettes were a delivery device for an addictive drug (nicotine).


What we learn

This films talks about the courage and journalistic integrity. How those values will lead you into trouble in a society driven by the private interests of a few large corporations. 


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