Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley

Nick Naylor likes his job. In the neo-puritanical nineties, it’ s a challenge to defend the rights of smokers and a privilege to promote their liberty. Sure, it hurts a little when you’ re compared to Nazi war criminals, but Nick says he’ s just doing what it takes to pay the mortgage and put his son through Washington’ s elite private school St. Euthanasius. He can handle the pressure from the antismoking zealots, but he is less certain about his new boss, BR, who questions whether Nick is worth $150,000 a year to fight a losing war. Under pressure to produce results, Nick goes on a PR offensive. But his heightened notoriety makes him a target for someone who wants to prove just how hazardous smoking can be. If Nick isn’ t careful, he’ s going to be stubbed out.