He added that his book took no moral stance on the actions of its characters but that did not mean he was trying to glamorise them.

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Tantalising but outrageous attempts to glamorise smoking through billboards and films may largely be a thing of the past, but these days the industry uses subtler tactics to burnish its image as a business that, despite everything, cares about its consumers.

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