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In Biloxi, Mississippi, a woman sues a tobacco company for the death of her husband from lung cancer. The protagonists are a jury fixer -- a lawyer whose role is to assure a jury favorable to the company -- and a rogue juror whom the fixer cannot eliminate or control. This is a landmark tobacco trial with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake which begins routinely, then swerves mysteriously off course. The jury is behaving strangely, and at least...
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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 cigarette century: the rise, fall, and deadly persistence of the product that defined America
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The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. And no product has received such sustained scientific scrutiny. The development of new medical knowledge demonstrating...
6) Smoke screen
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Big Tobacco would rather fight than switch in this corporate thriller. Responding to a $200 billion lawsuit that cannot be appealed, the tobacco industry shuts down and recalls all product, infuriating smokers, stockholders, and the government. The cigarette companies' leading spokesman realizes he's been hung out to dry? and ignites a plan to fight back
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In 1946 North Carolina, seamstress Maddie Sykes, a dressmaker for Bright Leaf's most influential women--the wives of powerful tobacco executives, uncovers dangerous truths about this lucrative industry in a place where everyone depends on Big Tobacco to survive.
Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who's just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina--the tobacco capital of the South--where her aunt has a thriving sewing business. After years of...
9) The insider
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Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
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1 videodisc (ca. 158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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English
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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
11) Parrish
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Pub. Date
2017
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1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, a ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.
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