Review of Thank You for Smoking (2005) by Bart & — 06 Nov 2010
Thank You for Smoking is a 2005 American comedy-drama film satire directed by Jason Reitman and produced by David O. Sacks. It is based on the 1994 novel of the same name by Christopher Buckley.
Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart) is a handsome, smooth-talking tobacco lobbyist and the Vice President of a tobacco lobby called The Academy of Tobacco Studies, which for fifteen years has been researching the link between nicotine and lung cancer. They claim that their research-funded primarily by tobacco companies-has found no definitive evidence of the linkage. Naylor's job consists mainly of reporting the Academy's questionable research 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 (David Koechner) and alcohol lobbyist Polly Bailey (Maria Bello), meet every week and jokingly call themselves the "Merchants of Death" or "The MOD Squad".
As anti-tobacco campaigns mount and numbers of young smokers decline, Naylor suggests that product placement of cigarettes could once again boost cigarette sales.
Get fun with this fast and innovative comedy.
This review of Thank You for Smoking (2005) was written by Bart & on 06 Nov 2010.
Thank You for Smoking has generally received very positive reviews.
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