http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b045cjmw/burning-desire-the-seduction-of-smoking-episode-1
seems to be just another anti smoking advert. well, off for a cig then 
That’s the spirit ! 
(now where’s my lighter…)
i tried to watch it… it actually started to annoy me. ive just stopped when they showed sobranie cocktails to kids to get them to say they were aimed at kids… how many times have you seen an open packet of sobranie cocktails around kids, or in a shop? it basically seems like the presenter trying to reinforce his lifes work of anti-tobacco.
I couldn’t help but marvel at the tobacco suits and their carefully learned sidestepping answers all the while knowing full well the death they peddle. That was classic when all the heads of the big tobacco companies denied that nicotine is addictive. WTF! Still all you folks with your lighters pay their bills so I’m sure they are grateful. Enjoy your smoke while you can. Seemed also that they see vaping type things as their future so maybe more about that in later episodes if anyone bothers to watch. Obvioulsy snuff could be huge if it got a smoking like publicity drive underway. Maybe big tobacco will look to take over snuff. Probably what I would do if I was them.
Seemed also that they see vaping type things as their future so maybe more about that in later episodes if anyone bothers to watch.
I watched this show this evening as I had a little free time, and agree with @Firestarter0 likewise I found it annoying. Funny enough I did think of having a little rant about it here, the programme had more holes in it’s thesis/premise than the night sky has stars. Smoking is bad for you - No questions about that. But hey, a lot of things in life are potentially hazardous/bad for you aren’t they? I don’t see a picture of a overweight person on any burger wrappers, nor an ‘excessive consumption of this product may lead to diabetes’ on soft drinks cans. The presenters bias was unreal. Tax on tobacco raises twice the cost of the healthcare costs of treating smokers, that was an interesting if well concealed comment. 2% of potential smokers would not take up the habit if cigarettes were in plain packets; Wow… A whole two percent! I could go on but my pipe has gone out! 
My real fear here is that the next episode will be all about the ‘evils’ of vaping and [god forbid] other smokeless tobacco [inc. snuff].
I just watched it, very one sided, giving more weight to the opinion of the admin assistant for an anti tobacco organisation than a scientist who has studied the effects of tobacco (I may add smoked forms of tobacco, not smokeless), typical of the BBC though.
We probably could have made a better program but I suspect it may have been heavily snuff biased. Of course no bad thing. Will be interesting to see in a few years how e-cigs will be viewed and what has happened with snuff. Smoking should have declined but seems that’s no real certainty either. Times they are a changing, or are they? They changed for me anyhow and I’m much happier with snuff and e-cig than I was with smoking.