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"Memphis, Tennessee, 1993. Attorney Michael Lewis looks into the emaciated face of his friend, a lifelong smoker dying of cancer, and resolves that something has to be done to right the wrong. Big Tobacco, which in four decades of litigation has never paid a penny, must be held accountable for the human and financial wreckage its products leave behind - especially the millions of lives snuffed out." "Four years later, Mississippi Attorney General...

Using 3-D animation, this program, divided into two parts, takes viewers on a journey deep into the brain to study the effects of three substances. The first part illustrates the major functions of the brain and shows how its principal cells, the neurons, communicate with each other through electrical and chemical signals. In the second part, animated molecules of nicotine, cocaine, and marijuana travel a route from the external environment through...