A compelling look at tobacco's uses and abuses from its Native origins to today's controversies. When Europeans discovered tobacco among Amerindians in the New World, it became a long-sought panacea of panaceas, the critical ingredient in enemas, ointments, syrups, and powders employed to treat everything from syphilis to cancer. Almost five centuries passed before medical researchers concluded that tobacco is unhealthy and can cause cancer. Smoke...

When the federal government began testing cigarettes for tar and nicotine in 1967, it revolutionized smoking, launching the era of 'light' cigarettes. The idea of a less harmful cigarette is so powerful that now more than 80 percent of all cigarettes sold in America are low-tar brands. Correspondent Scott Pelley reports.

Jean Kilbourne and Rick Pollay - two of the world's leading experts on the marketing of tobacco products - examine how Big Tobacco has been able to harness the power of advertising to counter the influence of scientific research, shape news coverage, overcome public resistance, and maintain private profits at the expense of public health.

This segment of Sunday Morning is about the tobacco industry, and the increasing number of legal impositions on the advertising and use of tobacco products.

IN FOCUS: ZIMBABWE TOBACCO INDUSTRY. Zimbabwe is the world's 6th largest producer of tobacco. Production has risen in recent years but for many, the country hasn't reached its full potential. CNN's Eleni Giokos traveled to the southern African country to find out why tobacco producers are banking on growth. FACE TIME: TAREK RABAH, VICE PRESIDENT, ASTRAZENECA, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA. AstraZeneca is a British-Swedish pharmaceutical company with operations...

Nick Naylor is a sexy, smart and charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who will fight to protect American's right to smoke. At the same time he is trying to maintain the idea of a perfect role model for his 12-year-old son. When Nick incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.

When Greg Rucka's first novel, Keeper, was published, readers were immediately fascinated by its hero. Alert and skilled, bodyguard Atticus Kodiak could protect his clients from almost any danger, but he sometimes fell prey to his own emotions. This combination of toughness and vulnerability attracted even more fans in Finder. Now, in Smoker, Atticus is about to meet his most elusive foe. The job sounds straight enough: test the security of the crew...

"A work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the rise of Juul, the most prominent e-cigarette company, and the birth of a new addiction"--