Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), the chief spokesman for the tobacco lobby in Washington, is handsome and likable, a mixture of swagger and impudent candor.

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His impudent instincts, which served him so well as a young scientist, made him allergic to nationalism, militarism, and anything that smacked of a herd mentality.

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The appeals judges gave Jackson a sound judicial thrashing for this failure and for his bizarre and impudent remarks about the richest man in the world, which he made while the case was ongoing.

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