Nicotine addiction

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

How television has become a valuable historical archive, and how film can be replayed to haunt those taped, not least the tobacco industry bosses who lied about nicotine addiction.

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Fri 25 Apr 199721:00

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Fri 25 Apr 199721:00
BBC Radio 4

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