Addiction Incorporated
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  • Summary: Addiction Incorporated tells the amazing story of Victor DeNoble, one of the most important and influential whistle-blowers of all time. In the 1980s, DeNoble was a research scientist at Philip Morris, where he was tasked with finding a substitute for nicotine that would not cause heart attacks. His quest was to find out whether it would be possible to create a cigarette that would be safer for smokers… though not necessarily less addictive. DeNoble succeeded, but in the process, produced something that had been denied and avoided for years: scientific evidence that nicotine was addictive. After his lab was shuttered and his research pulled from publication and locked in a vault, DeNoble took his findings public in what was nothing less than an act of modern-day heroism, testifying about his research in the infamous 1994 Congressional hearings—the same ones that produced the now-famous video of the seven heads of the major tobacco companies declaring, under oath, that they believed nicotine was not addictive. In the end, an unprecedented alliance of journalists, politicians, attorneys, and whistle blowers banded together to achieve what was once considered impossible: the first-ever federal regulation of the tobacco industry. (Variance Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 12 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
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  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    Dec 13, 2011
    80
    Straight-shooting, hard-hitting and fuming with contempt for the tobacco industry, Addiction Incorporated would be almost too exhausting to watch were it not for the folksy charm of its star witness.
  2. St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    Reviewed by: Joe Williams
    Mar 23, 2012
    75
    While it's satisfying to see fat cats tamed by science and an enraged public, the movie misses the opportunity to sustain the pressure.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Loren King
    Feb 23, 2012
    75
    Once it finds its footing in old-fashioned journalism, the film packs a wallop.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    Jan 12, 2012
    60
    The film's bigger problem is that after a certain point the way in which Evans allows DeNoble to narrate his own story comes to feel self-congratulatory and makes Addiction Incorporated seem a bit more like an advertisement or an endorsement than an investigation or exploration.

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