Thank You For Smoking

Thank You For Smoking,directed by Ivan Reitman's son, Jason (Juno), is a wickedly written black comedy (based on the book of the same name) about a smoking industry lobbyist by the name of Nick, played by the always brilliant Aaron Eckhart.  He works for The Academy for Tobacco Studies where he must debunk anti-smoking arguments for a living, effectively saying that tobacco being life-threatening has not been conclusively proven.
He has lunch with a member of the pro-gun and pro-alcohol lobby and he is doing well in his job.  He even comes up with an idea to push product placement in films and meets with an agent in Hollywood to get a film made around smokes.
Everything is going well until he meets a woman (isn't that always the way!), Heather, played by Katie Holmes and he falls for her.  He tells her everything about what he does and how he does it and she ends up being a journalist who is writing an expose on him and she reveals his nasty side to everyone and he loses his job and his film deal.
Meanwhile, Nick is fighting a senator who wants to get the skull and crossbones put on every packet of cigarettes and he gets kidnapped by anti-smoking supporters who cover him in nicotine patches.  They would kill most people but because Nick was such a heavy smoker, he was saved!
Nick is doing all this while trying to look after his son and teach him about the power of speech and influence.
This was a great movie and it is interesting to note that none of the actors actually smoke in this film! 8/10