Thank You for Smoking Novel by Christopher Buckley - Essay Example

Even though Nick himself knows the dangers of smoking, he continues to convince many to keep on smoking. 

Even though Nick knew that whatever he did was wrong and kept on due to the belief that he could convince any debating side towards his views, one day he met his match. William H. Macy, the Vermont senator wanted to place poison labels, especially on cigarette packs to discourage people from smoking (Longworth). Nick saw this as a motive to ruin his career and went ahead to conduct a public relations campaign with Rob Lowe, a Hollywood agent, to include cigarette smoking in the movies. Nick continuing with his quest, received several death threats regarding his work of encouraging people to smoke. Eventually, Nick met with an alluring reporter who worked for the Washington Newspaper called Katie Holmes. This reporter ran a damaging profile on Nick putting him in a tight position to argue on supporting people to smoke after she produced one of his nude pictures (Ebert).

The film reaches a climax when Nick is forced to look back at his job and assess the negative influence his job may have on his son. Eventually, it turns out that Nick eventually gets to his senses and accepts the reality of smoking and the need to discourage it (Ebert).

Should the U.S. Senate eliminate filibusters? Filibusters are often obstructive tactics employed by Senatortoto to delay a given billRegardingto smoking, there have been a lot of filibusters played by manpolicymakers. Filibusters should be eliminated as they discourage crucial laws that affect the health of its citizens, for instance, cigarette smoking, from being discouraged. Nick had been employed by a Big Tobacco company to act as their spokesman and encourage more people to join smoking. Even though the government knew the repercussions smoking had on its citizens in the movie measures to curb smoking could not be implemented immediately due to filibusters. The senator at one point tried to pass a law to ensure that cigarettes had a poisonous ban put on them, but did not succeed.   Read More