To smoke or not so smoke

Rating: 7/10 (22 January 2007)

CBS shackled by tortuous interference is forced to shelve an interview that reveals it all about the addictive and harmful ingredients added to cigarettes. A very controversial Michael Mann movie that shows CBS and Brown and Williamson in bad light. An interesting episode right before the release of this movie was when a Miami judge ordered jurors in a multi-billion dollar tobacco lawsuit not to see 'The Insider' saying the fictionalized version could prejudice the panel. In India too, we need to take steps to keep the judge and the jury away from the media interpreted stories and public voices, especially in cases like the Jessica Lal and the Nithari killings.