it is the scare factor that has driven it. it is risky, no question about it. >> in terms of smoking deaths -- everyone smokes in france. >> years ago being in paris and going to these cafes, for the winter. they had these outside -- somebody smoking. must be really cold. it was her cafe. she couldn't smoke in her own cafe. the draconian rules over it too. germany was going to -- and the longest life expectancy. this set of studies on obesity

by a man named keith who lived in different -- the hypothesis that carbohydrates were really bad or whatever it was and you each a lot of meat. and correlate gdp with the degree of smoking and found, it is slightly negative and fewer people smoke. and the causation. a rich country had more pressure on smokers. >> what about the line? >> i am not sure.

and -- as luck would have it. the university of -- not noted for their marketing drive. we have the books but don't have a price. it says on the back of the book 15 pounds. for $20 which is less. >> any further questions for john? thank you so much. i want to mention the book "unlucky strike: private health and the science, law, and politics of smoking" is available outside. sean will be happy to sign them and we have a more special prize at $20, we're selling them for $15 if you wish to purchase it. so thank you very much, joe hickman 21. we will see what the next

meeting, thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. here is our prime time lineup for tonight. at 7:00 p.m. eastern hillary clinton speaks with booktv about her most recent book hard choices. at 7:45 elizabeth aims and steve forbes discuss money. at 8:45 eastern take a tour of simon and schuster's headquarters in new york city. at 10:00, on afterwards, match k kibbe talks about his book don't hurt people and don't take their stuff, a libertarian manifesto with tim kearney of the american enterprise institute and we conclude our prime-time programming at

11:00 p.m. eastern whiffed on a panel on the life of water and journalist michael hastings. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. this weekend booktv is in jackson with our local cable partner comcast. next we sit down with the director of the wealthy house museum, bridget edwards and eudora welty's niece, mary alice weltry white, to discuss the late author's inspiration a turbulent surprise wedding book "the optimist's daughter". >> as a writer, it is essential. i take the -- i take what i know for granted so i see the new as new and the old as old and i feel i am a judge because my eyes have been trained by experience. so i know where i m as a baam a

to see people moving. >> we're the home of eudora welty. a historic landmark. eudora welty was a writer who was born in 1909 and died in 2001. she was a writer who won just about every literary prize there was to receive other than the nobel. she studied throughout the world really, published in many languages. she wrote some short novels. she is best known for her short stories. >> that was the form she most valued, the short story form. she had four collections of short stories, some of which are not that short, totaling just under 50 stories in those

collections. >> then modest beginnings which is a short -- it is actually -- eudora welty's life from the time she was born growing up in jackson to the time of publication of her first story and very entertaining. i personally love that one but also the "the optimist's daughter" is the novel that won is still the surprise -- pulitzer prize. most of her writing she did here and she would fine-tune it here. >> this home was designated landmark in 2004. the house opened to the public for tourists, and in a war to come down here to hear her typing. they often did so had the windows open upstairs and was an all manual typewriter. she did quite a bit of work

here. >> this is much like her room when she was here. she had her typewriter. she would write notes on anything available. the back of the checkbook, but will scraps of paper. the address book, she would jot down -- she could be in the parlor, she would hear a name and johnson down. next to some of the machine would write real so she would know not to use the hole made in the story because it is a real person. she loved jackson. he felt like she always -- she could write any where but she knew the people here and i think she liked writing here because they respected her and gave her her privacy. she could go to the grocery store and they wouldn't bother

her. they really liked her and going into a restaurant units heads turn as she walked to her table, everyone would be going le she knew the people, and you s&

>> she hears a whistle and asks her friends, what was that? and she said, oh, there's beginning to be a freeze tonight, that's to let the farmers know to cover their crops. so she, you know, just everyday happenings. she was just observant, and the story would develop. >> when she wrote, right off the start she would type it out, and then she would read it, and she would decide to edit it. so -- [inaudible] and she would read it in much like a seamstress, she would cut out a strip and say, oh, it goes better here, and then she would change a few words and pen it in. it was easy to move around by