Cigarettes, Cigarettes Were Much Tougher.

That's Sort Of What I Felt... I Miss Drinking, I Thought Bars Were Truly Holy Places.

All Has Changed, Thanks To Joe Eszterhas' Life-threatening Battle With Throat Cancer. He Announced In "the New York Times" That He And Hollywood Had Blood On Their Hands And Now Eszterhas Is Crusading To Stop Hollywood's Glamorization Of Smoking.

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 Some Young Women Movie Stars Who Are Doing It Everywhere, Smoking In Every Movie, Sometimes Even With Placements With A Pack Of Cigarettes.

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.