Thank You For Smoking

 Thank You for Smoking is a film that talks about the tobacco industry and a man who doesn't try to say how unhealthy cigarettes are but instead thinks it should be up to the people whether or not they want to smoke it. This is something that we can apply to the real world today because of the new fame of vaping, people now know that it is bad but still choose to do it anyway. Although there has been a crackdown on it and now certain things are not allowed and people are not allowed to do it in certain places, people still continue to find a way around it. This is an example in the real world that relates to the movie showing no matter how much you can say it is unhealthy people will find a way to validate it and continue doing it.

In the film Nick continues to face pressure from anti smoking advocates who threaten to put certain things on cigarette boxes in order to deter people from smoking. He also experiences troubles from a reporter who chooses to betray him publishing personal details of his work along with how he works. He eventually gets kidnapped after receiving death threats from an extremist group. This group chose to cover him in nicotine patches to torture him but he ends up surviving due to his tolerance build up he has from consistently smoking in the past. After this happened he had to stop smoking which could raise the question of why stop smoking if it is as addictive as they advertise it to be.

Nick has a son as well in the film and throughout the process is teaching him a lesson about being right. Nick thinks that being right is not necessarily proving that you are right, but although that the person you are arguing with is wrong. This movie also shows how aware Nick is that smoking is bad for you, yet he still will still continue to defend it because it is his way of making money. Nick begins to have an internal conflict because he has a son who looks up to him and he has to now think about the example that he is setting for him. 

At the end of the film Nick doesn't think differently about his past decisions although he does choose to quit his job and move on to a new one. From this new job he chooses to teach his son about the importance of arguing. He does this by telling him how he need to spin things and that you can still win and that you just have to prove that your opponent is wrong. Overall this film is not exactly about smoking but instead it is about how spin thing can affect what a person believes. Along with that the movie shows how you argue something can be important and decide if you win, as well as if you are confident in your beliefs it can lead others to believe it as well.