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Program 06-12-31-A |
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Smoking cigarettes is bad for you. Ok, we can all agree on that. So then, why are 20 percent of us still smoking? That’s 60 million Americans. And new smokers start every day. Why? It’s gotta be more than just nicotine. In this hour of To The Best Of Our Knowledge, we’ll explore the sublime pleasures of taking a puff. And, the Enlightened Tobacco Company. An "honest smoke" form the makers of DEATH Cigarettes.
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SEGMENT 1:
Richard Klein is a French professor at Cornell and author of "Cigarettes Are Sublime." A non-smoker himself, Klein tells Anne Strainchamps why he feels the French ban on smoking in all public places is an encroachment on personal liberty that threatens French culture.
SEGMENT 2:
We hear a montage of people's memories of their first cigarettes. Then, Julia Hansen, author of "A Life in Smoke," tells Jim Fleming about her smoking habit, and why she chained herself to the radiator in her dining room for a week in an effort to quit.
SEGMENT 3:
Jason Reitman wrote and directed the film "Thank you for Smoking." He tells Anne Strainchamps the film is based on Christopher Buckley's book, and features Sam Elliot as the Marlborough Man. And we hear some very funny and totally subversive clips. Also, Boz Temple-Morris was co-founder and Marketing Director of the Enlightened Tobacco Company, makers of Death Cigarettes. He tells Steve Paulson the company was all about truth in advertising.
CD copies are available at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 06-12-31-A.
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Books:
| Richard Klein, Cigarettes are Sublime (Duke) |  |
| Julia Hansen, A Life in Smoke (Free Press) |  |
Websites:
- Richard Klein
http://www.arts.cornell.edu/romance/french/french_faculty/klein.html - The movie "Thank You For Smoking" was written
and directed by Jason Reitman and is on DVD on Fox Searchlight Pictures.
http://www.foxsearchlight.com/thankyouforsmoking/
Music:
- Cannonball Adderley and His
Orchestra's "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" off of their CD "African
Waltz" on Riverside Records.
- Baquette Quartet's "Swing Valse" off of
the Paris Cafe CD on Rock River Records.
- The Mills Brothers' "Smoke Rings" from the
Thank You For Smoking Motion Picture Soundtrack on Lakeshore Records.
- The Swingle Sisters' "Little Organ Fugue"
from the Thank You For Smoking Motion Picture Soundtrack on Lakeshore
Records.
- kd lang's "Last Cigarette" frmm her "Drag"
CD on Warner Bros Records.
- Tex Williams' "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette"
from the Thank You For Smoking Motion Picture Soundtrack on Lakeshore
Records.
- Jerry Reed's "Another Puff" from the
Thank You For Smoking Motion Picture Soundtrack on Lakeshore Records.
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Distribution dates: week of 01/06/2008 - hour 2 |
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