Jack E. Henningfield

Presents the latest information on the physical and psychological effects of smoking, the reasons people smoke, and the treatment for quitting this drug addiction.

In the 1980s, Victor DeNoble was a research scientist at Philip Morris, a major tobacco company, where he was charged with the tasked of finding a substitute for nicotine in cigarettes that would not pose the risk of heart attack. In the process, DeNoble uncovered what the company had been hiding for years: that nicotine is addictive.