Tom Hockaday was an APCO employee, and March 1993 found him working closely with Philip Morris vice president Ellen Merlo to develop scientific articles to defend secondhand smoke and promote the idea that the EPA work was “junk science.”

The Times published the investigative piece about the governor both in print and online.

Thanks to Sherry Yard, for making Spago a superfun place to work from when in So Cal.

Her features had a delicate cast to them.