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Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies–in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The problem? He’s so good at his job, so effortlessly unethical, that he’s become a target for both... read more
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- Naylor: A tobacco lobbyist who is just a little too good at his job.
- Mister Naylor: Add a description of this character.
- Bobby Jay
- Jeannette
- Polly
- Jeff Megan
- Larry King
- Heather Holloway
- Jack Bein
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- Joey
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- Finisterre
- Sven
- Dr. Wheat
- Peter Lone
- Steve Carlinsky
- Roberta
- Griggs
- Lorne Lutch
- Erhardt
- Craighead
- Fiona
- Carlton
- Katie
- Dr. Williams
- Doak Boykin
- Oprah
- Mace
- Mahmoud
- Momnaney
- Murad
- Buerger
- Bernie
- James Bond
- Ron Goode
- Mike
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Ninety-nine percent of everything that is done in the world, good and bad, is done to pay a mortgage. The world would be a much better place if everyone rented.
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It is always consoling to discover humiliating bodily imperfections in those who dominate our lives.
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Rich men delight in displaying an exaggerated fear of their wives. They think it humanizes them.
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“Smoking is the nation’s leading cause of statistics.”
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“it is my closely held belief that what we need is not more confrontation, but more consultation.” A direct steal from the Jesse Jackson School of Meaningless but Rhymed Oratory, but it worked.
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might strike some as belonging to an older man who had been fundamentally disappointed early on and who had therefore decided to make life unpleasant for those around him.
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early forties—where the thrill of having a high-profile job has worn off and the challenge of keeping it has set in.
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Thus, having compared the modern American anti-smoking movement to the depredations of a bloodthirsty seventeenth-century Ottoman, Nick could depart, satisfied that he had temporarily beaten back the horde a few inches.
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Part of tobacco’s problem, he said, was that the sex had gone out of it.
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“Because I resolved that I would never—ever—again be put in a situation where I had to submit to the authority of incompetent men.
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First Sentence edit
There was a thick stack of while you were outs when he got back to the Academy's office in one of the more interesting buildings on K Street, hollowed out in the middle with a ten-story atrium with balconies dripping with ivy.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Christopher Buckley (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: May 17, 1994
ISBN: 0679431748
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Random House
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: May 17, 1994
ISBN: 0679431748
Page Count: 272
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- Dewey: 813.54
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