Jean Kilbourne and Rick Pollay - two of the world's leading experts on the marketing of tobacco products - examine how Big Tobacco has been able to harness the power of advertising to counter the influence of scientific research, shape news coverage, overcome public resistance, and maintain private profits at the expense of public health.

Through an inexplicable series of unwanted promotions, Trevor Barnett has become the lead spokesman for the tobacco industry just as it's on the verge of extinction. Plaintiff's attorneys have filed a $200 billion lawsuit that the industry will be unable to appeal. Abandoned by his friends, family, and the industry his own ancestors helped build, Trevor finds an unlikely ally in a beautiful anti-tobbaco lobbyist with whom he's secretly been in love...

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Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies–in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The problem? He’s so good at his job, so effortlessly...

"Through the rise and fall of empires, ideologies, and economies, tobacco grown on the tiny island of Cuba has remained an enduring symbol of pleasure and extravagance. Cultivated as one of the first reliable commodities for those inhabitants who remained after conquistadors moved on in search of a mythical wellspring of gold, tobacco quickly became crucial to the support of the swelling Spanish Empire in the 17th seventeenth and 18th eighteenth centuries....

Farce about an entire Iowa town that tries to give up smoking in order to win $25 million.

"[A] starry saga of life in the verdant Tobacco Valley. Parrish enters this 'Million Dollar Mile' with only his name and his ambitions. He'll need little else traveling a rocky road to maturity and success. En route he'll have the support of his mother, the devoted love of a farm girl, the counsel of a savvy grower and confrontation with ruthless tycoon Judd Raike. Raike may control the valley but might not be able to stop an iron-willed youth on...

Presents a history of the tobacco industry, discussing how nicotine and tobacco affect the body, legal issues the industry has faced, and the use of e-cigarettes.