It was also a battle that the tobacco industry—hauled onto Mr Waxman's turf to defend a business that the Government blames for 400,000 deaths every year—could not, despite its best efforts, hope to win "It's theater," one contemptuous public-relations adviser to a cigarette maker, who demanded anonymity, said of Mar Waxman's hearing "What are they going to do next, bring out the goat boy?" It was indeed theater, staged expertly by Mr. Waxman, a California Democrat who is an implacable foe of cigarette makers His staff placed television cameras so that the only shot of the nation's seven tobacco scions—leaders of Philip Morns U S A, the R J Reynolds Tobacco Company, the United States Tobacco Company, the Lonllard Tobacco Company, the Liggett Group Inc, the American Tobacco Company, the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation— captured a huge placard directly on their left It...