Leading Cigarette Expert: “The Tobacco Industry Helped Kill Peter Jennings”

Longtime ABC news anchor Peter Jennings died this week of lung cancer. 89% of people with lung cancer smoke cigarettes. Peter Jennings was a heavy smoker. He quit, but started smoking again after 9/11. We look at the industry behind Jennings' untimely death.

* Stan Glantz, professor medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He published the Cigarette Papers, a collection of internal documents leaked to him from the Brown and Williamson tobacco corporation.
* Anna White, coordinator of Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control at Essential Action

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