Big Tobacco whistleblower Merrell Williams Jr. dies at 72

Merrell Williams Jr., a former Kentucky paralegal who took on Big Tobacco as a whistleblower who leaked internal documents exposing health risks and the addictiveness of cigarettes, has died in Mississippi, decades after he joined the fight that forever changed perceptions of smoking.

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