Tobacco lawsuit trailblazer Moore still waging fight against smoking

The Clarion-Ledger, 11/27/8

Mike Moore hasn’t been Mississippi’s attorney general since 2003, and it’s been more than a decade since his David-and-Goliath battle against Big Tobacco.

It was a fight he won, and it changed the course of his life.

Take his friendship with director Michael Mann, which developed after Mann tapped Moore to play himself in The Insider, the 1999 film about tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand.

A poster-size photo of Moore sitting next to Mann on the set of the film hangs in the lawyer’s posh office in Flowood, a bedroom community outside Jackson. Mann’s scribbled message reads: “Today lawyer of the year. Tomorrow Academy Award nomination.”