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They are at the center of a multimillion-dollar legal hurricane: twelve men and women who have been investigated, watched, manipulated, and harassed by high-priced lawyers and consultants who will stop at nothing to secure a verdict. Now the jury must make a decision in the most explosive civil trial of the century, a precedent-setting lawsuit against a giant tobacco company. But only a handful of people know the truth: that this jury has a leader,...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes—mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product—with such sweep and enlivening detail.
"A great battleship of a book—formidable, majestic.”—The New York Times Book Review

Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexities and contradictions of human nature,...

Nick Naylor likes his job. In the neo-puritanical nineties, it's a challenge to defend the rights of smokers and a privilege to promote their liberty. Sure, it hurts a little when you're compared to Nazi war criminals, but Nick says he's just doing what it takes to pay the mortgage and put his son through Washington's elite private school St. Euthanasius. He can handle the pressure from the antismoking zealots, but he is less certain about his new...

An exposé of the tobacco industry discusses the cultural, political, scientific, and legal aspects of cigarette smoking in modern America.

Jean Kilbourne and Rick Pollay - two of the world's leading experts on the marketing of tobacco products - examine how Big Tobacco has been able to harness the power of advertising to counter the influence of scientific research, shape news coverage, overcome public resistance, and maintain private profits at the expense of public health.

Uses a compilation of Hollywood clips, vintage cigarette commercials, anti-smoking scare films, and Congressional battle footage. It casts a satirical eye on the notably uncivilized tactics employed by both sides in today's smoking wars.

Presenting six acclaimed primetime investigative documentaries hosted by Mr. Jennings, unseen since their network airings. How to get fat without really trying: Nearly 2/3 of the U.S. population is overweight. Could the food industry and our own government be to blame? Guantanamo: Take a rare look inside the controversial U.S. prison camp. Is the military bending the rules in order to win the War on Terrorism? Ecstasy rising: It remains one of...