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Cold Turkey
1971 · Film · 99 min
Directed by Norman Lear
Reverend Brooks leads his small Iowa town in a contest to stop smoking for a month. But some tobacco executives don't want them to win, and try everything they can to make them smoke. If townspeople don't go nuts from wanting a cigarette, or kill each other from irritation and frustration, they will win a huge prize.
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Either we need a new word, or we have to start reserving the label "addict" for very serious cases.
He experienced no withdrawal symptoms and was perfectly capable of taking a break from alcohol for 40 days.
It is extremely misleading to compare this with, say, a heroin addiction. Look up the documentary Cold Turkey on YouTube to see what true addiction is like.