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Burning Desire: The Seduction of Smoking

Peter Taylor

Mike Rudin

Burning Desire: The Seduction of Smoking: Episode 1

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Burning Desire

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In Australia, the tobacco industry's last-ditch battle to prevent plain packaging.

Documentary exploring attitudes to cigarettes and smoking. Peter Taylor travels to Australia to look at the tobacco industry's last-ditch battle to prevent plain packaging.

Cigarettes are the most lethal consumer product on the planet. Yet, despite all the health warnings and decades of ever increasing government regulation, the burning desire for tobacco is as strong as ever. 

Peter Taylor travels to Australia to look at the industry's last-ditch battle to prevent plain packaging and is given rare access to the world's second-biggest tobacco company to see why thousands of young people around the world are seduced by smoking every day.

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