I Will Focus On Smoking In Movies

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.

A Cigarette In The Hands Of A Hollywood Star Onscreen Is A Gun Aimed At A 12- Or 14-year-old.

I Worry That We Are Approaching A Time When That Which Is Shocking Is Squeezed Out By The Stalinism Of Political Correctness.

In The Olden Days, Of Course, Cigarette Companies Would Pay To Have Their Product Advertised In Movies And To Have Actors Smoke Cigarettes.[ronald Reagan Used To Do It.]

I Think That Hollywood Is Sort Of Guilty Of Having A Moral Blind Eye On This Subject. While At The Same Time, You Know, Being Involved In A Lot Of Liberal Causes And Being Involved Very Militantly, Hollywood Is, In Fact, Guilty Of Helping To Addict People To Smoke.