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Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A wandering supernatural feline's trio of adventures. The staff at Quitter, Inc. promises to help a nicotine addict kick the habit. If he doesn't someone in his family might get smoked. Then a luckless gambler is forced into a bet involving the outside of a building's 30th floor...on a 5 inch ledge. Then a young schoolgirl is rescued from a vile, doll-sized troll.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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,...
"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,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1994.
Language
English
Description
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...
7) Cat's eye
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A wandering supernatural feline's adventures provide the linking story for this thrillogy.
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Maddie Sykes is a promising 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 war rations and shortages, Bright Leaf is a prosperous wonderland in full technicolor bloom, and Maddie is dazzled by the bustle of the crisply uniformed female factory workers, the palatial homes, and, most of all, her aunt's glossiest clientele: the wives of the...
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