Addicted to Pleasure: Tobacco

Brian Cox reveals the rich and controversial past of sugar, alcohol, tobacco and opium. In this edition, he takes a look at tobacco, taking a genetic test to learn why he never took up the habit despite coming from a family of tobacco consumers. He also travels to Virginia in America to discover how the habit of smoking kick-started the British Empire, explores how manufacturers conspired to make cigarettes the optimal nicotine delivery system and learns that the Nazis were the first to make the link between smoking and lung cancer.