His ethical responsibility to promote public safety clashed with the priorities of tobacco executives, he said. After the presentation, Wigand signed autographs and talked until midnight with students. He seemed pleasantly surprised when he saw one of his former students, Matt Falk, freshman in LAS, standing next to him. Falk was in Wigand's biology class at duPont Manual High School in Louisville, Ky., four years ago. The number of nicotine-related deaths a year is 400,000.
More women die from cigarette-related illnesses than breast cancer.
Four thousand are found chemicals in cigarettes, including carbon monoxide and formaldehyde. Tobacco appears on the dollar bill.