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Horizon - 2006-06-29 - We Love CigarettesA day in the life of the cigarette.A love of nicotine unites all peoples across the globe, regardless ofcolour, wealth or creed. Where religion and politics have failed,tobacco has succeeded, but at what cost? For over 50 years people havebeen knowingly paying for the pleasure of tobacco with their lives,making man\'s fatal tryst with the cigarette one of the weirdest loveaffairs ever.A wide range of people are tangled in this web and by filming them forone day, simultaneously all over the world, Horizon has captured ourextraordinary relationship with the cigarette.Scientist and inventor of the nicotine patch Jed Rose has spent hisworking life trying to unravel the mysteries of nicotine addiction andsearching for ever more ingenious ways to help people quit. Today, he\'sinvestigating the path of nicotine through the body by having hissubject light up in a PET scanner.Meanwhile in Texas, Dr Jeffrey Wigand, tobacco scientist turnedwhistleblower and subject of the Hollywood film The Insider, ispreparing for his next appearance as expert witness in anotheranti-tobacco court case.But as the West finally seems to be reaching the end of its affair withthe cigarette, not everyone is pleased. Writer and smoking aficionadoJames Leavy laments the passing of a bygone age as he attempts to lightup in a smoke-free Dublin. And in an attic in Yorkshire, artist DavidHockney regrets the increasingly puritan, anti-pleasure sentiments thathave made his "delicious vice" socially unacceptable.Despite the woes of smokers in the West, globally the tobacco industryis worth $430 billion. Business is booming and in Southampton, BritishAmerican Tobacco\'s blenders spend their day developing yet anotherirresistible smoke.For while smoking bans in Europe and US abound, in poorer nations thelove affair is still in its first flush. One third of the world\'scigarettes are smoked in China. In Beijing, one man has made it hislife\'s work to persuade 360 million Chinese smokers to give up. ZhangYue spends this day snatching cigarettes from the lips of theunsuspecting and haranguing them in an attempt to get them to quit.Meanwhile Allen Carr, retired accountant and discoverer of his own EasyWay to quit, faces his ultimate challenge. He will attempt to persuadeevery smoker watching to quit, by debunking four myths held close toevery smoker\'s heart.GSpot v2.5b8 avi file details:Filename.....: Horizon.2006.We_Love_Cigarettes.WS.DVBC.XviD-ACP.aviFilesize.....: 670,861,782 bytes = 640MB = 1/8th DVDRuntime......: 00:49:17 (73919 frames)Aspect Ratio.: 624x352 () [=]Video Codec..: XviD (B-VOP//)Video Bitrate: 1681 kbpsFramerate....: 25 fpsAudio Codec..: 0x0055(MP3, ISO) MPEG-1 Layer 3Audio Bitrate: 125kbps 2ch VBR 48000HzLanguage.....: EnglishUnpacked Bitstream

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