WHERE THERE'S SMOKE...

THE MAN WHO WOULD BRING DOWN the Tobacco Kings spent last Friday teaching high school in Louisville, Kentucky. While lawyers for his former employer, tobacco giant Brown & Williamson, lobbed allegations of his untrustworthiness at the press, while 60 Minutes staff members put the finishing touches on an interview with him that they planned to air on Sunday, Jeffrey S. Wigand kept mum on the one subject about which he apparently has much to say.

But the words Wigand has already spoken--to Mike Wallace and to a panel of Mississippi lawyers who in late November heard his deposition in a suit...