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Now The Cigarette Companies Claim That They Don't Do That [ Pay To Have Their Product Advertised In Movies ] Anymore, Although It Certainly Makes You Wonder A Bit When An Independent Production Like "in The Bedroom", You Know, Seems To Focus Constantly On Marlboros And Almost It Turns Into A Marlboro Ad, Whether There Was Any Money Exchanged.

There Are No Crowds Out There Demanding To See Smoking Scenes In Movies.

There Are Certainly A Lot Of Sins To Be Taken On. To Take On Smoking And Movies Is A Weighty Enough Thing, I Think, And It's One I've Experienced, And It's What's Caused Me To Live In-with My Voice Maimed For The Rest Of My Life.

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