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FROM: "Mary Rindfleisch" <[removed]@biblio.org>
REC'D: 1/22/02, 3:32 PM

Hello all,

Patron is looking for a novel someone told her about, probably fairly
recent. Here is what the patron thinks she knows about the book. The main
character is a lobbyist for the tobacco industry who is kidnapped and forced
to sit in a room filled with smoke for days, so that he becomes very
addicted but also gets sick whenever he comes into contact with cigarette
smoke. This, naturally, makes it very difficult for him to do his job. I
thought of _Thank You for Smoking_ by Chris Buckley and _Smokeout_ by S.V.
Date, but neither seem to have the kidnapping gambit as far as I can tell.
Does anyone recognize this plot?

Mary Rindfleisch
Adult Services/Readers' Advisory Librarian
Ridgefield Library
472 Main St.
Ridgefield, CT 06877
Phone: 203-438-2282
e-mail: [removed]@biblio.org

FROM: Anne Kabel <[removed]@metronet.lib.mi.us>
REC'D: 1/22/02, 3:43 PM

Thank you for Smoking by Buckley does have a kidnapping in it - the main
character is covered with nicotine patches and becomes very ill.

Anne Kabel
Adult Reading Librarian
Baldwin Public Library
300 W. Merrill
P.O. Box 3002
Birmingham MI 48012-3002
248- 647-1700

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