In Christopher Buckley's farcical novel Thank You For Smoking, Nick Taylor, a tobacco industry spokesman, spends years denying the truth about cigarettes to newspaper reporters, Congressmen and just about anyone else who asks. Then one day, all that changes. Taylor is kidnapped by balaclava-wearing "anti-smoking terrorists" who cover him with a near-lethal number of nicotine patches. Armed with firsthand knowledge of the full extent of nicotine's biological effects, Taylor has a change of heart. He starts telling the truth about cigarettes on primetime TV.
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