Title Thank You for Smoking Overview The chief spokesperson and lobbyist Nick Naylor is the Vice-President of the Academy of Tobacco Studies. He is talented in speaking and spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol business, and Bobby Jay Bliss of the gun business own advisory group SAFETY. They frequently meet each other in a bar and they self-entitle the Mod Squad a.k.a. Merchants of Death, disputing which industry has killed more people. Nick's greatest enemy is Vermont's Senator Ortolan Finistirre, who defends in the Senate the use a skull and crossed bones in the cigarette packs. Nick's son Joey Naylor lives with his mother, and has the chance to know his father in a business trip. When the ambitious reporter Heather Holloway betrays Nick disclosing confidences he had in bed with her, his life turns upside-down. But Nick is good in what he does for the mortgage. Tagline Tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor is trying to SAVE YOUR ASH! Genres Comedy, Drama Keywords father son relationship, capitalism, based on novel, smoking, lie, cigarette, research, law, health, marketing, politics, politician, tobacco, liar, dark comedy, cancer, independent film, money, morality, social satire, cigarette smoking, business, advertising, guilt, humiliation, lobby, bribe, corporation, lung cancer, lobbyist, tobacco industry, nicotine Production Companies Fox Searchlight Pictures, Room 9 Entertainment Production Countries United States of America Spoken Languages English Original Language en Runtime minutes 92 Release Year 2005
Worldwide box office revenue: approximately 25 million USD