When the good guy in the latest big-budget action movie lights up a cigarette moments after destroying the bad guy’s hideout, it’s just character development, right? That’s what Big Tobacco would like you to think. The truth is Big Tobacco has a long history of paying for placement in Hollywood films.

Here’s something you might not know: it’s illegal for Big Tobacco to pay for its products to appear in movies. Are we to believe, then, that while other brands are paying major bucks to be placed in movies, Big Tobacco is getting the same treatment for free? I don’t think so.

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