Thank You for Smoking (film)

Thank You for Smoking is a 2005 comedydrama film written and directed by Jason Reitman and starring Aaron Eckhart, based on the 1994 satirical novel of the same name by Christopher Buckley. It follows the efforts of Big Tobaccos chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who lobbies on behalf of cigarettes using heavy spin tactics while also trying to remain a role model for his 12yearold son. Maria Bello, Adam Brody, Sam Elliott, Katie Holmes, Rob Lowe, William H. Macy, J.K. Simmons and Robert Duvall appear in supporting roles.

Nick Naylor is a handsome, smoothtalking tobacco lobbyist and the vicepresident of a tobacco lobby called the Academy of Tobacco Studies, which foryears has been researching the link between tobacco smoking and lung cancer. They claim that their researchfunded primarily by tobacco companieshas found no definitive evidence of any linkage. Naylors job consists mainly of reporting the questionable research of the Academy to the public and defending Big Tobacco on television programs by questioning opposing health claims and advocating personal choice. Naylor and his friends, firearm lobbyist Bobby Jay Bliss and alcohol lobbyist Polly Bailey, meet every week and jokingly call themselves the Merchants of Death or The MOD Squad.As antitobacco campaigns mount and numbers of young smokers decline, Naylor suggests that product placement of cigarettes could once again boost cigarette sales. Naylors boss, BR, sends Naylor to Los Angeles to bargain for cigarette placement in upcoming movies. Naylor takes along his young son Joey in hopes of bonding with him. The next day, Naylor is sent to meet with Lorne Lutch, the cancerstricken man who once played the Marlboro Man in cigarette ads and is now campaigning against cigarettes. As his son watches, Naylor successfully offers Lutch a suitcase of money for his silence. During the drive back, Nick and Joey discuss the beauty of argument. ........

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