В сюжета на филма са залегнали факти от нашумял през 1994 година скандал за корупция, взривил американската общественост.
Тютюневият лобист Ник Нейлър (Арон Екхарт) е човекът, натоварен със защитата на обществения имидж на много хулената цигарена индустрия. Надарен с бърз, остър език и неудържимо его, майсторът на извъртането трудно може да бъде надприказван. Изправен срещу кръвожадни здравни фанатици и сенатор опортюнист (Уилям Мейси), Нейлър предприема агресивна кампания, докато с новопридобитата си слава не привлича вниманието на голяма клечка в тютюневата индустрия (Робърт Дювал) и на коварна млада репортерка от Вашингтон (Кейти Холмс), готова на всичко, за да си направи материала! Внезапно притиснат и от собствения си малък син, Ник се сблъсква с най-важния въпрос в кариерата си: не е ли лъжата най-силният наркотик?
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
Много от героите обитаващи магазинчето за пури на г-н Рен в Бруклин своята философия за пушенето, за отношенията между хората, за бейзбола, за Ню Йорк и за белгийските вафли. Преди всичко, това е филм за живия живот, изпълнен с ексцентричен хумор и хуманност.
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
Heading west for his health, Colonel Lambeth takes his daughter Rill along. Lost on the desert they are saved by Pecos and Chito. The Colonel hires the two and the Lambeths soon find themselves mixed up in Pecos' trouble. Pecos has killed Sawtelle's brother and Sawtelle as head of the vigilantes is after him.
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
Leandro, an unemployed mason and his friend, Tocho, attempt to rob a tobacconist in the Vallecas district of Madrid, but Mrs. Justa, the tobacconist, impedes it alerting the neighbors who notify police. Inside the shop, the confrontation between the two friends and their 'hostages', the tobacconist and her niece Angeles, is relaxing, and a budding sympathy arises between them.
Two tobacco growers battle for control of the cigarette market.
The film documents the tobacco season of 1993/94 from the planting of the tobacco through the harvest and sale until the sowing for the next season - using some small planters from the villages around Schwedt on the Oder and a large farm, the former Agricultural Co-operative in Vierraden in an exemplary manner. It describes the transformation in the technical and agricultural fields. Different planters and representatives of the Tobacco Grower's Association discuss the situation of tobacco planting in the GDR compared to current conditions and answer questions on their self-organisation and on the future of tobacco cultivation in the Uckermark.
Produced in 1967, this black and white film is an inmate's view of Daytop, a drug treatment centre on Staten Island, New York, where addicts learn to get along without drugs. Uncompromising, often brutal group therapy sessions are designed to shake loose the excuses a victim makes for himself. The people and situations shown are authentic; only one actor was employed. The results obtained at Daytop are regarded by some psychiatrists as a breakthrough.
Борис и Павел Мореви (Йордан Матев и Иван Касабов) са синове на провинциален учител. Павел е комунист, а Борис мечтае за власт и пари. На гроздобер той среща Ирина (Невена Коканова) – дъщеря на стражар, в която се влюбва. Павел пък е влюбен в приятелката й Лила (Мирослава Стоянова).
Дъщерята на собственика на тютюневата фабрика, Мария (Цветана Островска) е влюбена в Борис. След време той се жени за нея, а след смъртта на баща й наследява фабриката и навлиза в света на едрия капитал. Ирина завършва медицина. Става любовница на Борис, тъй като жена му е душевно болна...
След нейната смърт те се оженват. Втората световна война е към края си. Борис замисля крупна сделка с гръцки търговец.
Реализацията й зависи от генералния директор на германски тютюнев концерн за Източна Европа – фон Гайер (Волфганг Лангхоф). Борис моли Ирина да издейства благоразположението му.
The hear/see/speak no evil monkeys come to life from a small statue on a shelf. They find a pipe and smoke it, and enter a world where all manner of tobacco smoking paraphernalia comes to life.
Small village farmers grow tobacco which they are forced to sell to the government for next-to-nothing prices. This repeats with Italians during the WW2, and with the communists after the war. Boiling point is getting high.
Amidst radical changes in nicotine use globally, one filmmaker's journey through the confusion & fear leads to a startling discovery about Earth's most hated stimulant. Society may be changed forever.
This movie is about the story of Luis "Chavit" Singson (born 1941), a Philippine politician, and the Governor of the Ilocos Sur province in the Philippines. Singson started EDSA II in October 2000 when he alleged he gave Philippine President Joseph Estrada 400 million pesos as payoff from illegal gambling profits.
Smoke Traders is an inside look at the world of the Mohawk tobacco trade.
This is the visual accompaniment to the album of the same name, released a year prior to said album, both created by the recording artist known as Tobacco. The DVD was comprised of collected footage from various television shows, music videos, and commercials from the 70's and 80's. Most of the movie featured exercise videos and wrestling videos that have been cut and edited. It was never released to the public who exactly Beta Carnage is, or how much work was done by either him or Tobacco.
The number of smokers in Europe is declining, yet the tobacco industry is still making considerable profits. Electronic innovations such as e-cigarettes and tobacco heaters play a significant role in this. Both are said to be far less harmful than conventional cigarettes. But is the aromatic steam really not a danger to our health?
Here is a graphic picture of the tobacco harvest in southwestern Ontario. At the end of July, transient field workers move in for a brief bonanza when the plant is ripe. The tobacco harvesters call it "the back-breaking leaf."