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Documentary exploring attitudes to cigarettes and smoking. Peter Taylor travels to Australia to look at the tobacco industry's last-ditch battle to prevent plain packaging.

Cigarettes are the most lethal consumer product on the planet. Yet, despite all the health warnings and decades of ever increasing government regulation, the burning desire for tobacco is as strong as ever.

Peter Taylor travels to Australia to look at the industry's last-ditch battle to prevent plain packaging and is given rare access to the world's second-biggest tobacco company to see why thousands of young people around the world are seduced by smoking every day.

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Thu 24 Jul 2014 00:50

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  • The White Stripes

    Seven Nation Army

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Role Contributor
Reporter Peter Taylor
Writer Peter Taylor
Writer Mike Rudin
Series Producer Mike Rudin
Director Mike Rudin

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