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Classic Films

Jeebo

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13. There's something about the ASSUMPTION that everybody smokes.

Reply to Jeebo (Original post)

Thu Mar 9, 2023, 06:53 PM

Mar 2023

An extraterrestrial visitor seeing those old movies would think that EVERYBODY on this planet smokes cigarettes and drinks hard liquor. There is in that assumption some kind of bigotry or prejudice against non-smokers and non-drinkers, in that refusal to acknowledge that we even exist.

-- Ron

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I love old movies, BUT ... [View all] Jeebo Mar 2023 OP

We too notice all the smoking. Diamond_Dog Mar 2023 #1

I call it The Bored Life. Tetrachloride Mar 2023 #2

Noticed on cable all the new movies have smoking. Tobacco industry not able to patricia92243 Mar 2023 #3

Pretty sure it was a promotional type thing. Product placement is big $ in movies Lettuce Be Mar 2023 #4

Here's a Family Guy parody of just that. IjustDontlikeRepugs Mar 2023 #5

People used to smoke everywhere. Irish_Dem Mar 2023 #6

Doesn't bother me. It was a different time. LakeArenal Mar 2023 #7

Paul Henreid, I think, in Now Voyager. Great film.....n/t yorkster Mar 2023 #8

Oh yes. Other tear jerker with Tone. LakeArenal Mar 2023 #11

I was watching Casablanca the other night BigmanPigman Mar 2023 #9

Fred MacMurray could deliver his lines while eating popcorn. John1956PA Mar 2023 #10

Apparently Claudette Colbert could, too. Jeebo Mar 2023 #16

I'm not bothered by it Auggie Mar 2023 #12

There's something about the ASSUMPTION that everybody smokes. Jeebo Mar 2023 #13

Doesn't bother me at all. Different times. Having a martini and cigarette was considered "cool". LoisB Mar 2023 #14

As a former smoker Lulu KC Mar 2023 #15

Cigarettes and alchohol were much more ubiquitous back in the day. Smoke in an elevator? Sure ZonkerHarris Mar 2023 #17