Thank You for Smoking Nick Naylor, chief spokesman for Big Tobacco, makes his living defending the rights of smokers and cigarette makers in today's neo-puritanical culture. Confronted by health zealots out to ban tobacco and an opportunistic senator who wants to put poison labels on cigarette packs, Nick goes on a PR offensive, spinning away the dangers of cigarettes on TV talk shows and enlisting a Hollywood super-agent to promote smoking in movies. Nick's newfound notoriety attracts the attention of both tobacco's head honcho and an investigative reporter for an influential Washington daily. Nick says he is just doing what it takes to pay the mortgage, but the increased scrutiny of his son and a very real death threat may force him to think differently. release year: 2006 star(s):Aaron Eckhart Sam Elliott
Free Range on Food: Staffers Solve Your Cooking ConundrumsWashington Post, United StatesNew England - Thank you for Smoking!: Based on the Gastronomer feature, I am now eager to try smoking apples! Some of the more unusual smoked foods I can think of are peanuts in the shell, onions (made into rings), lapsang souchang tea, rauchbier,
Christopher Buckley's 'Losing Mum and Pup' is readers' gainShreveport Times, LAAs the author of comic best-selling novels like "Thank You for Smoking" and "Boomsday," Buckley has an advantage. His laugh-out-loud humor doesn't desert him just because he spends a big chunk of "Mum and Pup" in the hospital at his parents' bedsides
Food Inc. riles Big Chicken. Cluck them; throw a foodraiser!Daily Kos, CAGreat tie-in films are Thank You for Smoking about the PR genius representing Big Tobacco and How to Cook Your Life about Zen and the spirituality of cooking and food. In fact, Thank You for Smoking is essential viewing (or reading) for those of us
Interview: 'Your icon, my dad'National Post, CanadaAs a speechwriter to George HW Bush and a novelist who has satirized American political culture in books such as Thank You For Smoking, Supreme Courtship and Little Green Men, he knows how to squeeze a joke out of dry material. Boomsday, is premised on
