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TOBACCO AND DRUGS.(Thank You for Smoking)(Movie review)
Cigarette smoking naturally turns many of us into frothing moralists. How can we tolerate an industry, we ask, that glamorizes poison? That's the kind of sentiment that gets carved up into little pieces by Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), the hero of "Thank You for Smoking." The chief spokesman for the tobacco lobby in Washington, Nick is a mixture of swagger and impudent candor. He knows that his arguments in favor of smoking are rubbish, but he enjoys the game of spin too much to give it up. As he explains to his young son, Joey (Cameron Bright), in this line of work the goal is not to be right but to dominate the conversation. If you put your opponent on the defensive, if ...
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