I love old movies, BUT ...

[BigmanPigman]

9. I was watching Casablanca the other night

and they ALL smoked constantly. Most older movies and TV shows have constant smoking, even in hospitals, etc. That is why we notice it so much now. We can look back and see when smoking cigs started to be viewed as a bad thing.

What I found ironic while watching Dog Day Afternoon was Cazale's lecturing one of the hostages about suddenly taking up smoking from the stress of being a hostage. He said she "shouldn't do that to your body and she was weak". Two years later he died of lung cancer at 42. Nehad been a heavy smoker his whole life.

I recall an old Rosanne episode (when the show first started and was entertaining) when she tried to quit smoking and she listed all the old TV shows from the 50s and 60s who influenced her while growing up ..... Ward Cleaver, Get Smart (even the robot), "both Darins" from Bewitched, Genie, Rob and Laura and Millie and Jerry on Dick Van Dyke, etc.