Thank You for Smoking
A Novel
by Christopher Buckley
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Humor, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
Nick Naylor likes his job. In the neopuritanical nineties, it's a challenge to defend the rights of smokers and a privilege to promote their liberty. Sure, it hurts a little when you're compared to Nazi war criminals, but Nick says he's just doing what it takes to pay the mortgage and put his son through Washington's elite private school St. Eutha...
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