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* [[The Barnum]]: Nick Naylor himself.
* [[Because I'm Good At It]]
* [[Black Comedy]]: It's a ''Comedy'' about ''smoking
* [[Bowdlerise]]: Parodied. After the events of the movie Senator Finistirre is still hard at work, attempting to censor cigarettes in old movies by covering them with bananas and other ludicrous objects.
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: Nick's speech to his colleagues at the MOD Squad after his [[Heroic BSOD]].
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'''Polly:''' "''Baby seal poacher.''"
'''Bobby:''' "Even ''[[American Gun Politics|I]]'' think that's kind of cruel..."}}
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Late in the book (only), {{spoiler|Gomez saves Nick's bacon and provides him with clues
* [[Chewbacca Defense]]: Many of Nick's arguments are more sophistry than substance, as he illustrates with Vanilla vs. Chocolate Ice Cream, and "We don't want [[Littlest Cancer Patient|Cancer Boy]] to die, we'd lose a valuable customer!"
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: A strange example. When discussing the potential movie that's supposed to show how [[Smoking Is Cool]] [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]], Nick mentions to the director that smoking in a space shuttle wouldn't be possible, since the director didn't do his research, and that smoking in a oxygen atmosphere would be a fire hazard. It gets odd when you realize that ''Nick'' doesn't know what he's talking about, because space shuttles don't have pure oxygen for the air, for the very reason Nick pointed out (flammability). It's also unhealthy to breathe 100% oxygen. It gets stranger when you realize that due to the way that fire works in zero gravity, smoking in zero gravity (the main reason the director wants it, because he thought it would [[Rule of Cool|look cool]]) probably wouldn't be possible. [[Wild Mass Guessing|Although who knows if the filmmakers knew that or not?]]
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'''Larry King:''' Emotional issue.}}
* [[Irrelevant Thesis]]: Nick Naylor, constantly.
* [[Jerkass]]: Jill, Nick's ex-wife. She gets uppity when Nick tries to spend time with their son- she seems to think that, since he defends Big Tobacco, he's obviously going to tie their son down and force him to smoke at gunpoint. At one point she basically says to him "Why would he want to hang out with you when he could hang out with Brad?" (Joey's
* [[Karmic Death]]/[[Death by Irony]]: Inverted {{spoiler|when some anti-tobacco activists kidnap Nick and try to overdose him on Nicotine Patches, it's his lifetime of smoking that gave him the resistance to fight it. It does become a [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]] though, as he can never smoke again on pain of death
** A second example in the book: {{spoiler|BR had people killed through smoke inhalation "accidents", and is killed in the same manner by the same person}}.
* [[Knight Templar]]: {{spoiler|[[Well-Intentioned Extremist|the kidnappers]]}} in the movie and Senator Finisterre in both, to an extent, who is also a [[Manipulative Bastard]].
* [[Littlest Cancer Patient]]: "And where in the hell did you find Cancer Boy?
* [[Logical Fallacies]]: Many of the arguments concerning cigarettes are quickly deflected by Nick Naylor by subtly changing the subject. His debating partners, most of whom aren't really good at debating at all, rarely call him out on this. Naylor even admits to his son that he never has to prove that he's right, but only has to discredit his opponents somehow or twist their arguments so they look bad even if they are entirely correct. It's notable that Naylor seems perfectly aware that he's really only playing the masses and the viewers, and that it requires a certain moral flexibility on his part rather than actual facts.
* [[Major Injury Underreaction]]: Surprisingly, Bobby Jay, while fighting Panamanians.
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