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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
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...
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...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 35 min.)
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nick Naylor is a sexy, smart and charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who will fight to protect American's right to smoke. At the same time he is trying to maintain the idea of a perfect role model for his 12-year-old son. When Nick incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.
5) The insider
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battle for both men to save their reputations and more.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 465 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Big Tobacco meets Silicon Valley in this corporate exposé of what happened when two of the most notorious industries collided-and the vaping epidemic was born. Howard Willard lusted after Juul. As the CEO of tobacco giant Philip Morris's parent company, and a veteran of the industry's long fight to avoid being regulated out of existence, he grew obsessed with a prize he believed could save his company-the e-cigarette, a product with all the addictive...
11) Smoke screen
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
p. (large print) cm.
Language
English
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Nick Naylor is a sexy, smart and charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who will fight to protect American's right to smoke. At the same time he is trying to maintain the idea of a perfect role model for his 12-year-old son. When Nick incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Cigarette: A Political History offers a fresh interpretation of tobacco's role in the twentieth century. It argues that tobacco played a vital and emblematic role in the history of twentieth century political economy. Far from being unregulated, tobacco was the most controlled and supported commodity produced in the United States during the twentieth century. The federal tobacco program was remarkably long lived, lasting nearly seven decades and...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In February 2012, Marie Colvin crossed into Syria on the back of a motorcycle. A veteran war correspondent known for her fearlessness, outspokenness, and signature eye patch, she was defying a government decree preventing journalists from entering the country. Accompanied by photographer Paul Conroy, she was determined to report on the Syrian civil war, adding to a long list of conflicts she had covered, including those in Egypt, Chechnya, Kosovo,...
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