I Have My Own Religious Bond With

I'm Not Suggesting At All That We Take Away All Of The Characters' Vices. I Am Suggesting That This Particular Vice Is So Insidious, So Nefarious, And So Deadly That Simply By Glamorizing It Or Poisoning Our Young Adults, And I Think It's A Very Separate Category, But In No Way Am I Suggesting That We Move On From Banning Smoking In Movies To Banning Drinking, You Know, Or Whatever Else We Want To Do.

I Have My Own Religious Bond With The God In My Own Head.

I Think One Of The Things That I Was Struck By Was That Joe Has The Financial Wherewithal To Go Check Into Some Expensive Clinic, Go Into Rehab And Beat These Addictions But He Didn't. He Sort Of Designed His Own, You Know, Sort Of Rehabilitation At Home. And Anybody Could Do What He Did. When He Felt Like Having A Cigarette After He Ate, He Would Get Up And Walk. At Cocktail Hour When He Used To Have A Drink And Watch The News, He Stopped Watching The News. He Couldn't. He Couldn't Watch The News And Not Have A Drink And A Cigarette. He Would Walk.

I Began My Addiction When I Was 12 Years Old. By The Time 40, 45 Years Later, When It, You Know, It Threatened My Life And Maimed Me In Terms Of My Voice, I Was So Addicted That I Was Smoking Four Packs Of Cigarettes A Day.

I Was Surprised By How Warm The Response Was, Even Among Studio Heads, Who Said They Really, We Do Have To Do Something About Glamourization Of Smoking.