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CHARACTERS
QUOTATIONS
PR PLAYBOOK
SATIRE
WORD PLAY
100
Lorne Lutch
Who is the Tumbleweed Man?
100
The character who says "It pays the mortgage."
Who is Nick Naylor?
100
"We regret your tragic loss...but [do] we want to abide by such documents as the Declaration of Independence...?"
What is call for freedom?
100
The technique used when Nick is discovered on Constitution Avenue, leaning against the Declaration of Independence, after being attacked by anti-smokers, against whom he defends his actions by saying Americans have a right to smoke.
What is situational irony?
100
The linguistic reason Sven Gland's anti-smoking campaign "Everything Your Parents Told You About Smoking Is Right" will help sell cigarettes to children.
What is "Smoking Is Right"?
200
The man who founded the Academy of Tobacco Studies
Who is The Captain (Doak Boykin)?
200
The character who says "Tobacco takes care of its own."
Who is The Captain or Nick Naylor?
200
"Where are/is the data?"
What is question science?
200
The technique used when Nick worries repeatedly that he will be compared to Joseph Goebbels?
What is parody or irony?
200
"a clearinghouse of scientific information and an impartial and always honest mediator between the concerns and needs of the American public and the tobacco companies"
What is the Academy of Tobacco Studies charter?
300
The spokesperson for the Moderation Council?
Who is Polly?
300
The character who says, "I'm turned on by moral degenerates."
Who is Heather Holliway?
300
"Buerger's disease...has a complex, indeed an extremely complex pathology."
What is manufacture doubt?
300
When Bobby Jay Bliss says, in defense of selling firearms, "Does your elected lawmaker support the Bill of Rights? Or are they selling you a Bill of Goods?"
What is verbal irony?
300
The word the caller to the Larry King Live show uses as a figure of speech for murdering Nick that makes it clear how he will be attacked.
What is "dispatch"?
400
The lobbyist for SAFETY?
Who is Bobby Jay Bliss?
400
The character who says, repeatedly, "Emotional issue."
Who is Larry King?
400
"The Robin Goode's of the world want the Robin Williger's to die...so that their budgets will go up."
What is attack the messenger?
400
The reason the Tumbleweed Man seems VERY reminiscent of The Marlboro Man.
What is parody or caricature?
400
Given how often they claim their products don't kill people, the name Nick, Polly, and Bobby Jay give to their group.
What is the Merchants of Death.
500
The man who came up through the ranks of the Academy from cigarette vending machines
Who is BR?
500
The character who says, "I was just a dumb cowboy who wanted to be in pictures."
Who is Lorne Lutch?
500
"Instead of sitting still and being a punching bag for liberals who didn't want criminals to have guns, they went after liberals for releasing people who had shot people in the first place."
What is create controversy?
500
The TYPE of satire that Thank You For Smoking is.
What is Horatian?
500
The new name of the National Right to Bear Arms Committee.
What is SAFETY?