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Jump to full article: AP, 2009-01-21
Author: The Associated Press
Intro: Former North Carolina Rep. Horace Kornegay, who vigorously defended cigarette manufacturers in Congress and later as Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, died Wednesday. He was 84. . . .
Kornegay moved in 1969 to the Tobacco Institute, an industry trade group that also assembled a team of lobbyists and built a reputation as one of Capitol Hill's most powerful forces. There, he continued to push back against increased taxes and regulations that were dogging an industry that he cast as one of America's best.
In 1986, serving as chairman of the Tobacco Institute, Kornegay ardently fought against a Surgeon General suggestion that the nation ban cigarette advertising.
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