First, a conversation with Joseph Califano of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, Jacob Sullum, editor at "Reason" magazine and author of For Your Own Good, Gary Black, tobacco analyst for Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. and Richard Blumenthal, the attorney general of Connecticut, about the surprising decision by some major tobacco companies to forego settlements or negotiations with Congress over proposed restrictive laws. Then, a conversation with Ruth Reichl, a restaurant and food critic for "The New York Times", about why and how she became a food writer, which is chronicled in her memoir "Tender to the Bone".