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Category Archives: Reviews

NPR – ‘Addiction Inc.’: Big Tobacco, Keeping Us Hooked

December 14, 2011 : By Mark Jenkins

In the late 1970s, a young researcher was hired by a major tobacco company to help create a cigarette that posed fewer health risks to smokers, but was just as addictive as the company’s current products. At the same time, …

NYT Critics’ Pick: Addiction Incorporated

December 13, 2011 : By Jeannette Catsoulis

Straight-shooting, hard-hitting and fuming with contempt for the tobacco industry, “Addiction Incorporated” would be almost too exhausting to watch were it not for the folksy charm of its star witness. Nestled at the center of this relentless documentary, guiding us …

Variety: Addiction Incorporated

December 13, 2011 : By Dennis Harvey

Potent docu “Addiction Incorporated” chronicles the long and tortured road traveled to establish federal regulation of the tobacco industry — a cause finally won largely due to the revelation that some manufacturers long had proof cigarettes were addictive, despite decades …

SLANT Magazine : Addiction Incorporated

December 12, 2011 : By Joseph Jon Lanthier

The baroque depths of the tobacco industry’s insidiousness notwithstanding, exposés have been telling the same unsurprising story for the last 10 years—namely, that cigarette companies not only knew how harmful and addicting their products were, but that they often used …

CINESPECT : Ratting Out Big Tobacco

December 12, 2011 : By Charles H. Meyer

“Addiction Incorporated,” Charles Evans, Jr.’s documentary about the research scientist Victor DeNoble, who exposed the tobacco industry’s successful but secret scheme to make cigarettes more addictive, opens with a well-edited but unnecessary montage of Super-8 footage narrated with a voiceover …