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Aaron Eckhart, Rob Lowe, Adam Brody, Maria Bello, Sam Elliott, Katie Holmes, Cameron Bright, JK Simmons, William H Macy, David Koechner, Robert Duvall

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Ryan

The crew were uneasy enough about the ending that they made another one that completely wimps out on the movie’s message, as after leaving the courtroom Nick sees his son about to light a cigarette and instinctively grabs it away, right in front of the cameras which exposes him as a hypocrite and destroys his career. Thankfully, the studio let them go ahead with the real ending.

that girl

That's a hell of a cast

TalynOne

Robert "Bob" Norris, a real-life Colorado rancher, is widely known as the original Marlboro Man. Ad executives discovered him in 1955 via a newspaper photograph standing next to his friend, actor John Wayne. Ironically, Norris never smoked a cigarette in his life. He only held them for the camera during photo shoots. He worked on the campaign for roughly 12 to 14 years. He resigned after one of his children asked how he could tell them not to smoke when he was starring in cigarette ads. He passed away on November 3, 2019, at the age of 90.

Cristy

Oh I am SO excited to watch this! Thank you for picking it.

dys

Aaron Eckhart really is great, just seems like he didn't have the best judgement on picking scripts and ended up with a number of stinkers that kept him from becoming a major leading man. He's fantastic in this, The Dark Knight, and Sully.

Nick Stark

For those that are watching that still may smoke. Even if just occasionally. It ain’t worth the risk. I smoked for years and finally quite in 2007. Unfortunately I started up again after a five year hiatus. Within four months of lighting back up I had a heart attack. Needless to say, I never smoked again.

Suzanne Whyte

I have a family history of lung cancer and am very anti-smoking but I don’t support banning it because I support bodily autonomy. If someone wants to kill themselves by smoking that’s their choice. Just don’t smoke around your kids or in workplaces. I have noticed a recent trend of young celebrities smoking in music videos though and wonder if there is a new PR campaign funded by big tobacco. It definitely seems like there’s a resurgence in people smoking cigarettes rather than vaping.

Youtalkingtome

I had always been told growing up that the men who did those ads mostly died from lung cancer, That was likely an old urban legend.

Youtalkingtome

Yeah, I mentioned The Core and Paycheck, but there were others that really tanked him.

Youtalkingtome

Absolutely true! A person's right to make the undeniably wrong choice is a really controversial conversation topic, and I think this film handles it well.

David Bridgham

Interestingly enough, the real person Nick Naylor is based on did stop working for the big tobacco companies, and then went on to work for big oil to muddy the waters around human-caused climate change. He did a good job and is still making the world a worse place.

Actuarial Lurker

Glad you are still with us... My wife started smoking as an MD before I met her while working an internship in a Cancer Pain Management program as a way to "perk up" for all night on call duty. When we started dating, 30 years ago, I forbade her to smoke in my apartment or in my presence and made her go outside on the porch or Manhattan streets to light up. She "quit" 7 or 8 times over the first 3 years of our dating/marriage using nicotine gums and "lozenges", went on Chantix (which bears a Black Skull label since it causes suicidal ideation) and that DID make her quit but after two weeks on the Chantix she was up in the middle of the night planning how to sneak drain cleaner from under the sink to have for lunch and realized that it was causing temporary psychosis (hence the suicide warning label on the box!). She threw the stuff away warns everyone to stay away from this cessation method but still hasn't touched nicotine of any kind in 27 years...imagine NOT being depressed or having any diagnosed mental illness, being a devout Catholic AND still laying awake figuring out how you might drink liquid drano as a side effect of a cessation drug?? SCARY. ..... As an actuary your lungs turn pink and relatively normal after N years, where N is your pack years- so if you smoke a pack a day for 10 years it will take 10 years for your lungs to heal. You will still have about a 15%-20% higher mortality rate in your 50s-80s if you have more than 5-10 pack years but if you don't quit your mortality is about 2.25x normal for the rest of your life so 125% extra risk...after you turn 90 it sort of doesn't matter since it appears that you might have super "clean-up cells" that get rid of the free radicals and cells with damaged DNA that make you slightly immune. if you go on the nicotine gum or lozenges you get rid of the lung cancer risk since you are no longer inhaling poison gases like heated benzene or formaldehyde BUT the nicotine causes turbulent blood flow in your heart chambers (like rapids in white water rafting) which cause blood cells to break and form plaques in your arteries and hence the elevated heart attack and stroke risk for non-smoking but nicotine users. End of sermon and PSA

Actuarial Lurker

I remember when they banned it in workplaces in NY and NJ around 1996. There were offices that stunk fron chain smoking when I started working in 1990. I remember in the 1970s that the Long Island Rail Road, Metro North (train Don Draper took to go to northern NYC suburbs) and commercial airplanes looked like "hot boxes" from a Cheech and Chong movie Joe and Kevin- about 50% of people in the uS smoked in the 1950s. As we realistically saw in the 1960s on Mad Men it dropped to 30% or so in the late 1960s and 1970s. When I started working as an actuary in 1990 about 20% of the US population smoked BUT it was more concentrated in blue collar, lower socioeconomic groups and women. In middle to upper middle classes smoking prevalence dropped to 10% or less in the late 90s and early 2000s- a lot driven by banning smoking in workplaces and forcing restaurants and bars to have smoking areas- and a lot driven by the huge per pack taxes placed on the products. Now maybe 3%-5% of higher income US men smoke 5%-7% of higher income US women smoke. its over 10% in lower economic classes where people don't have health care providers nagging them to stop....its higher among non-Whites for the same reasons- the uninsured health political problem is ALSO a smoking problem IN Europe 20%-50% of people smoke and in some parts of Asia its 80%. I've designed life insurance products for Vietnam where smoking 1 pack a day was considered a normal risk, and smoking 3-5 cigs a day In France was considered a normal risk.

Actuarial Lurker

Aaron Eckhardt's breakout role was "In The Company of Men" in 1997

Nick Stark

That’s quite a journey. Very happy to hear it has a happy ending

Michael Bennett

I remember there was a big hubbub in Virginia (home of Philip Morris/Altria) when we banned smoking in restaurants entirely. People thought it was going to destroy the restaurant industry because smokers wouldn't go out anymore. Instead, it ushered in the restaurantaissance! Everyone who couldn't stand the smoke wanted to go out even more, and everyone could smell and taste their food better. And the smokers still wanted to go out, they'd just smoke right before and right after eating. Restaurants were on a tear for an entire decade until covid.