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Duration: 60 minutes
Deploying his trademark gonzo verve, John Safran investigates the curious pivot of Big Cigarette to so-called healthy alternatives. With smoking on its last legs, tobacco giant Philip Morris has spun itself as an anti-smoking business, marketing a new doohickie called the IQOS as the salvation of nicotine addicts. But is this just the callow ingeniousness of the profit-seeking mechanism at work, or are vapes really the future? In conversation with Paul Barclay, Safran uncovers the mendacious tobacco industry, dropping revelations that will leave you gasping.
#Artists
John Safran
John Safran is a writer and filmmaker. From his Australian Film Institute Award winning series John Safran vs God (2004) through to his Prime Minister's Literary Award shortlisted Puff Piece (2021) he often spots fringe cultural trends that blow up into far bigger things. Depends What You Mean By Extremists (2016) saw John hanging with extremists, preempting the rise of the new far-right. Never a fly on the wall, John has been baptised in West Africa (Race Around the World), exorcised in the USA (John Safran vs God) and crucified in the Philippines (Race Relations). His upcoming SBS documentary sees him building an ancient Jewish mud monster, a golem, the first known person to do this in modern times. His obsession with exploring religion, and getting his hands dirty doing it, has seen him labelled Australia’s gonzo theologian.
Paul Barclay
Paul Barclay is an Walkley Award-winning journalist and broadcaster who spent over 30 years at the ABC. Most recently he was presenter and producer of Big Ideas on ABC Radio National.
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