I know there couldn't possibly be anyone out there who might know how many cigarettes were lit in this flick, would you? I am kinda curious. Or just how many Nolte lit up? I found myself starting to count mid-way through and realized that wouldn't do.
I think I got lung cancer just watching this flick, which I thought was very good.
LOL, i'd never seen so many cigs in a movie in my life. Thats almost the only thing I remember about it.
shareThat's pretty good. I watch old movies, and I'm used to seeing Bogart smoking like there's no tomorrow. And there was a lot of smoking in Miller's Crossing too - but I think that this movie tops them all in that department.
shareWatch Black Dahlia. I swear that movie single handedly kept big tobacco in business. Insane amounts of cigs were smoked in that movie.
shareThat's the way the world was, back then. A huge proportion of the population smoked. It was not uncommon for 11 year-old kids to have already started smoking, as well. If you go to China these days, or travel to Easter Europe, heaps of people smoke. The health message hasn't reached there, yet.
shareYou do realize that in the movies of today they aren't using real tobacco, but a non-nicotine blend of herbs called 'stage tobacco'?
shareI hope it isn't "herbal tobacco" from Mexico...tehe...LOL! ;)
shareyeah, i couldn't believe how much smoking went on in this film! Ultimately, I found it pretty distracting...started counting how many times someone lit up like the previous poster mentioned...
shareI agree - that's the way the world was back then. I have always hated cigarettes. One of my earliest recollections was in Atlanta, warm spring rain, I am heading out the door, and my mother says "you will catch cold if you go out and play in the rain". I replied "I will get a sore throat if I stay in here with your cigarettes." That would have been about 1944. "Second had smoke" was not in the vernacular back then.
If you want some good laughs, watch the recent movie "Coffee and Cigarettes".
I think it was a DVD with Twilight Zone episodes on it -- It showed a show from television where Rod Serling was interviewed by (I think) Mike Wallace. Unbelievable! Neither one of them ever stopped smoking. The air was gray with it.
...I just looked it up. Here's the interview on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vR-XDTUXwc
"The more you drive, the less intelligent you are"
-- Repo Man
In the 1970's, we used to smoke like that in sales meetings. The meeting room was a rancid lung.
shareThis thread is hilarious with approximately 75% of the posts written by young people that were not exposed to life in the U.S.of A in the Fifties. This is how people lived. They chain-smoked and they drank, and they smoked and drank as they drove, and they drove some very cool cars as they were smoking and drinking. In other words, the Nanny State had as yet to become a reality. Individuals were, for the most part, free to do what they wanted to do and if by chance one was stopped for some infraction, they were more likely to be given a warning than a ticket or arrested since residents of a city were not considered solely as tax-revenue units or criminals as they are today.
The one post from one of the individuals that did experience the good old days complains about second-hand smoke. You know, studies paid for by the Government can come up with whatever conclusion the politicos desire. In this case the results stated that "second-hand smoke" poses a substantially greater risk of heart disease and lung cancer in non-smokers. Interesting though that the Baby-Boomer generation, the generation that was exposed to the greatest amount of second-hand smoke, has a life expectancy of 75.4 years for males and 80.4 for women.