Trapped Chilean miners persuade authorities to send in cigarettes

A rescuer packs supplies to be sent to the trapped miners through a tube at San Jose mine, near Copiapo in Chile. Photograph: Luis Hidalgo/AFP/Getty Images
When the movie comes to be made, it may be the moment to rival Humphrey Bogart lighting up a cigarette in Casablanca or Lauren Bacall asking for a match in To Have and Have Not.