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</div><div>Christopher Taylor Buckley (born September 28, 1952)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Buckley(novelist)#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a>[] is an American author and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_satire" title="Political satire" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">political satirist</a>. He also served as chief speechwriter to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_President_of_the_United_States" title="Vice President of the United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">Vice President</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W.Bush" title="George H. W. Bush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);">George H. W. Bush</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Buckley(novelist)#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Buckley(novelist)#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> He is known for writing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Is_My_Broker" title="God Is My Broker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">God Is My Broker</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking(novel)" title="Thank You for Smoking (novel)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Thank You for Smoking</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Green_Men(novel)" title="Little Green Men (novel)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Little Green Men</a>, The White House Mess, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Way_to_Treat_a_First_Lady" title="No Way to Treat a First Lady" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">No Way to Treat a First Lady</a>, Wet Work, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_of_Arabia" title="Florence of Arabia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Florence of Arabia</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomsday(novel)" title="Boomsday (novel)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Boomsday</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Courtship" title="Supreme Courtship" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Supreme Courtship</a>, Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir, and The Judge Hunter.</div><div>
</div><div>gelbart, Larry (5 June 1994). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/05/books/warning-this-man-is-dangerous-to-your-health.html?searchResultPosition=4" style="font-style: inherit; background-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54"); background-position: right center; background-size: initial; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; padding-right: 13px;">"Warning: This Man Is Dangerous to Your Health"</a>. The New York Times. Retrieved 6 February 2020.</div><div>
</div><div><div>THANK YOU FOR SMOKINGBy Christopher Buckley.272 pp. New York: Random House. $22.</div><div>
</div><div>WE'VE come a long way, baby, since songwriters waxed lyrical about cigarettes with lipstick traces and smoke getting in your eyes. Can anyone watch an old Humphrey Bogart movie without the urge to warn him that by never taking his perpetual prop from between his lips, he's killing himself?</div><div>
</div><div>Smoking, clearly for most of us, abstainers and/or survivors, is no longer sexy, no longer macho. No one can ever again promise us that a cigarette will make us popular or desirable or act as an aid to our digestion (although it is true that premature death does tend to end any smoker's stomach problems)....</div><div>
</div></div><ol class="references" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; list-style-type: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking(novel)#cite_ref-2" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite id="CITEREFWitchel1994" class="citation news cs1" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Witchel, Alex (30 June 1994). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/30/garden/trying-to-smoke-with-christopher-buckley-more-huffing-than-puffing.html?searchResultPosition=9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">"TRYING TO SMOKE WITH Christopher Buckley; More Huffing Than Puffing"</a>. The New York Times. Retrieved 6 February 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=TRYING+TO+SMOKE+WITH+Christopher+Buckley%3B+More+Huffing+Than+Puffing&rft.date=1994-06-30&rft.aulast=Witchel&rft.aufirst=Alex&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F1994%2F06%2F30%2Fgarden%2Ftrying-to-smoke-with-christopher-buckley-more-huffing-than-puffing.html%3FsearchResultPosition%3D9&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThank+You+for+Smoking+%28novel%29" class="Z3988" /></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking(novel)#cite_ref-3" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a> }<cite class="citation news cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.wired.com/2016/02/geeks-guide-christopher-buckley/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">"Politics Is So Insane Right Now Satirists Can't Keep Up"</a>. Wired. 20 February 2016. Retrieved 6 February 2020.</cite></li></ol><div>
</div><div>tyfs  is a 2005 American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satirical" class="mw-redirect" title="Satirical" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">satirical</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy" title="Black comedy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">black comedy</a> film written and directed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Reitman" title="Jason Reitman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Jason Reitman</a> and starring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Eckhart" title="Aaron Eckhart" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Aaron Eckhart</a>, based on the 1994 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satirical" class="mw-redirect" title="Satirical" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">satirical</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking(novel)" title="Thank You for Smoking (novel)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">novel of the same name</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Buckley(novelist)" title="Christopher Buckley (novelist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Christopher Buckley</a>. It follows the efforts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Tobacco" title="Big Tobacco" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Big Tobacco</a>'s chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who lobbies on behalf of cigarettes using heavy <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin(public_relations)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spin (public relations)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">spin tactics</a> while also trying to remain a role model for his 12-year-old son. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Bello" title="Maria Bello" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Maria Bello</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Brody" title="Adam Brody" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Adam Brody</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Elliott" title="Sam Elliott" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Sam Elliott</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Holmes" title="Katie Holmes" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Katie Holmes</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Lowe" title="Rob Lowe" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Rob Lowe</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H.Macy" title="William H. Macy" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">William H. Macy</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.K.Simmons" title="J. K. Simmons" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">J. K. Simmons</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Duvall" title="Robert Duvall" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Robert Duvall</a> appear in supporting roles.</div>The film was released in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_release" class="mw-redirect" title="Limited release" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">limited run</a> on March 17, 2006, and had a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_release" title="Wide release" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">wide release</a> on April 14. It received largely positive reviews, with particular praise for its screenplay, humor, themes, and Eckhart's performance. As of 2007, the film had grossed a total of more than $39 million worldwide.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-BOM-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> The film was released on DVD in the US on October 3, 2006, and in the UK on January 8, 2007.<div>
</div><div>...Thank You for Smoking initially opened at the box office in the U.S. as a limited release in just five theaters, and grossed $262,923 in its debut weekend for an average of $52,584 per theater, making it one of the top 100 average gross per theater films of all time. The film was later released in 1,015 theaters across the U.S. on April 14, 2006, and has gone on to gross $24,793,509 domestically and $14,529,518 outside the country, for a total of $39,323,027 worldwide. The highest it ever rated at the North American box office was #8 on the weekend of its wide release.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[14]</a> Although the film's box office performance was excellent for Reitman's directorial debut, it paled in comparison with his next two films, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juno(film)" title="Juno (film)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Juno</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_in_the_Air(2009_film)" title="Up in the Air (2009 film)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">Up in the Air</a>, both of which went on to make well over $150,000,000 worldwide.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[15]</a> As of 2017, the movie is the 14th highest-grossing political <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire" title="Satire" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">satire</a> film.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-BOM-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a></div><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Criticism[</h3>The main contention most critics had with the film was its lack of continuity. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karina_Longworth" title="Karina Longworth" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Karina Longworth</a> of Cinematical notes "Thank You for Smoking has a vague emotional arc, but narratively it plays out like a constellation of sitcom sketches, connected by the most tenuous threads of character evolution",<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-16" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[16]</a> while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire(magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Empire (magazine)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Empire</a> observes "the problem's not so much with the movie's aim, as with the number of targets it's aiming at."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[17]</a> Other reviewers criticized the film's overacting. Manohla Dargis of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a> notes "although he [Reitman] steers his cast through its paces with facility, he tends to oversell jokes that were already plenty loud in the book."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-Dargis,Manohla-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a> Other comments come from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hollywood_Reporter" title="The Hollywood Reporter" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Hollywood Reporter</a>: "While often entertaining, the film keeps hitting the same comic notes",<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[19]</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon.com" title="Salon.com" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Salon</a>: "The actors here are entertaining enough to watch, even if they sometimes seem to be taking their mission (whatever they think it is) a bit too seriously."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-Zacharek,Stephanie-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a>The Nick Naylor character has been compared to real-life <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Berman(lawyer)" title="Richard Berman (lawyer)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Richard Berman</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Organizational_Research_and_Education" title="Center for Organizational Research and Education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Center for Consumer Freedom</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[21]</a>While Thank You for Smoking the book was praised as a sharp criticism of both anti-smoking lobbyists and the tobacco industry, the film has received more mixed reviews on its satirical content. Steve Palopoli of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Silicon_Valley" title="Metro Silicon Valley" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Metro Silicon Valley</a> writes that "no matter" how much the hype machine might hard-sell the idea that the movie 'skewers both sides of the issue', "any child old enough to recognize Joe Camel can tell that underneath the sarcastic joking, this is a bitterly anti-smoking film."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[22]</a> Palopoli goes on to say "the supposed case against the anti-smoking lobby has been reduced mostly to some limp jokes at the expense of William H. Macy's senator character, who is fervently against the tobacco lobby". Many felt the film's relatively sappy ending negated the slicker, darker tone of the book. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Washington Post</a>'s Desson Thomson thought that "as written and directed by Jason Reitman, 'Smoking' is filtered too heavily with moral redemption."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-23" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[23]</a>Reitman has maintained his purpose was to match the tone and satirical message of the book as closely as possible. "What I wanted people to think about was political correctness. I wanted them to think about ideas of personal responsibility and personal choice. I think cigarettes are a wonderful location for that discussion because cigarettes are something we know all the answers to", he posits. "I wanted to look into this idea of why we feel the need to tell each other how to live and why we can't take personal responsibility for our own actions when we fall ill from things that we know are dangerous."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-24" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[24]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Zacharek" title="Stephanie Zacharek" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Stephanie Zacharek</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon.com" title="Salon.com" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Salon</a> agrees with Reitman; "Despite its title, the movie doesn't come packaged with a strong anti-smoking message, because it doesn't need to: Everyone knows that smoking is bad for you, including people who continue to do it."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-Zacharek,Stephanie-20" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[20]</a>There is no point during the film at which any of the characters smoke. Dargis of The New York Times unwittingly states, "Thank You for Smoking is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It includes mild violence, discreet sex and, of course, countless cigarettes."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-Dargis,Manohla-18" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[18]</a> In the film, even Robert Duvall's filtered cigarette maverick "The Captain" is shown repeatedly drinking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_julep" title="Mint julep" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">mint juleps</a> rather than smoking cigarettes. Some critics argue that Reitman's reluctance to show the characters smoking is further confirmation of the film's anti-smoking stance. Reitman has issued statements disagreeing with this view. He said in an interview that "While it's not anti-smoking, it's very important people don't think that this is a pro-smoking movie. It's about freedom of choice."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-25" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[25]</a> Buckley said about the decision to omit smoking that "[I]t was very deliberate, and I think rather cool."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-Bosman-26" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[26]</a><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Industry reaction[</h3>The tobacco industry itself has been reluctant to take any sides or comment on the film. When <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New York Times</a> reporter Michael Jankowsky contacted an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altria" title="Altria" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Altria</a> publicist about the tobacco giant's reaction, she "hesitated to respond, insisting that the film looks dated and poorly reflects the industry with depictions of tobacco executives as highly paid sleazeballs."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-Jankowsky-27" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[27]</a> Though Thank You for Smoking pokes fun at the industry, the novel it was adapted from is a much harsher critic of tobacco lobbyists, and the major tobacco companies have mostly kept quiet on the issue.<h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Accolades[</h3>Thank You for Smoking did not receive a wide variety of nominations from the major award circuits; however, it did garner two <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Globe_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Golden Globe Award" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Golden Globe</a> nominations in its year for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) and Best Actor in the same film genre for Aaron Eckhart's portrayal of Nick Naylor. The Broadcast Film Association recognized <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Bright" title="Cameron Bright" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cameron Bright</a> for his performance as Joey with a nomination for Best Young Actor, and also gave the film itself a nomination in the Comedy category. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Reitman" title="Jason Reitman" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jason Reitman</a> received the Best Directorial Debut award from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Board_of_Review_of_Motion_Pictures" class="mw-redirect" title="National Board of Review of Motion Pictures" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">National Board of Review of Motion Pictures</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_You_for_Smoking#cite_note-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[28]</a><div></div>