Going far beyond any news headline, this fascinating documentary reveals the complete story of Big Tobacco's experiments and plight from the production of nicotine controlling substances to the beginning of criminal litigation and to the new chapter of re-education of the truth. Tobacco companies produced the most deadly product on earth while they maintained a perfect record of defeating those who tried to reign them in. The public revelation of long held tobacco industry secrets leads journalists, politicians, attorneys and whistle blowers into an unexpected alliance and leads to the first ever federal regulations of tobacco.