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    Nica Javier CRITHIN A62 Ms. Hazel Biana August 5‚ 2013 “Thank You for Smoking” film viewing Identifying fallacies paper. The movie‚ “Thank You for Smoking” is a comedy with a tobacco industry lobbyist‚ Nick Naylor as the lead. The movie has an eerie comic theme which tackles the serious issue of the addicting substance of tobacco‚ or to be more specific‚ nicotine. The idea which the movie was trying to portray was that this lobbyist was a great speaker who is able to manipulate many

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    Rhetorical Analysis: Thank You for Smoking Rhetorical Analysis: Thank you for Smoking The film Thank You for Smoking is a dark comedy that follows a lobbyist‚ Nick Naylor‚ for the tobacco industry. Dark comedies take a serious topic‚ and make light of the topic through satire. A good example of rhetoric can be found inThank You for Smoking during a scene where Nick Naylor delivers an argument against putting a skull and crossbones label on every pack of cigarettes. This is done during a hearing

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    Intro: The essay “Thank You for Smoking‚” written by Peter Brimelow‚ is far from an influential essay on why people should smoke. Through this essay‚ Brimelow makes an effort to convince the audience smoking is actually beneficial to your health. I find it hard for people to write about what they think are the benefits of smoking when there are so many obvious reasons why you should not smoke. The main audience being targeted in this article is those who already smoke and those who are thinking

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    product reprehensible. At the beginning of "Thank You For Smoking‚" Nick is getting ready to defend himself on the Joan Lunden talk show‚ in the company of anti-smoking do-gooders and a cancer-stricken‚ bald teenaged boy. Did I say defend himself? No‚ Nick attacks. He asks the audience what the tobacco business would possibly gain from the death of the young man. If anything‚ it would mean the loss of a customer. Instead‚ it’s the professional anti-smoking vigilantes who want the boy to die‚ because

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    English 103 Mr. Anderson Thank You For Smoking: Rhetorical Analysis The book/article Thank You For Not Smoking  is a 1994 satirical novel written by Christopher Buckley‚ and written as an e-article by Peter Brimelow. It was also made into a dark comedy film in 2005‚ written and directed by Jason Reitman and starring

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    Thank you for smoking 1. The movie is about Nick Naylor‚ who happens to be an eloquent man. He works as a spokesman for the tobacco industry. He has to convince the America society that smoking is alright. Because of his talent for talking and discussing he can trick the Americans to believe him. Nick also tries to transfer his own experience and abilities as a spokesman to his son Joey Naylor and he teaches him that he must be critical for everything. Nick often meets with his friends in a restaurant

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    In the movie Thank You for Smoking‚ Nick Naylor is a handsome man‚ smooth talking tobacco lobbyist and the vice-president of a tobacco lobby called the “Academy of Tobacco Studies”. Naylor’s job consists mainly of reporting the questionable research of the company to the public and defending Big Tobacco on television programs by questioning health claims and advocating their personal choice about cigarette. While Nick Naylor’s morals maybe questionable‚ he has the talent for whipping up an argument

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    Abstract #3 Thank You For Smoking. Dir. Jason Reitman.  Perfs.  Aaron Eckhart‚ Katie Holmes.           Fox Searchlight Pictures‚ 2006. Film.               Thank You for Smoking was a film about a tobacco lobbyist named Nick Naylor.  Throughout the movie Nick explains to his son‚ Joey‚ that his job is to be right.  He also explains that‚ when you argue properly‚ you’ll never be wrong.  Near the beginning of the movie he pitches an idea to have movie stars boost tobacco sales by smoking cigarettes

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    Summary of “Thank You for Smoking” The movie “Thank You for Smoking” is primarily about the job and actions of the main character‚ Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart). Nick Nelson is a lobbyist‚ the vice president and spokesperson of The Academy of Tobacco Studies. His job is to acknowledge people of the research and findings about the effects of cigarettes. The company is financed mainly by tobacco companies and they claim to have found no defective linkage between smoking and major diseases. But what

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    Thank you for smoking The film “Thank you for smoking” comes around many themes. The most important theme‚ in the film‚ is probably smoking‚ but also family‚ friends‚ power of speech‚ and business plays a big role. In the film‚ we have Nick Naylor‚ the main character. Naylor is a lobbyist‚ and his job is to convince the press and the people who smoke‚ that it is not bad. Throughout the film‚ we here both pro and cons of smoking‚ but the film itself does not come with a message‚ either you should

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