Ok, I quit smoking May 2nd 2005.........AND I SWEAR TO GAWD WHEN WATCHING OLD

[a kennedy]

MOVIES........I want to start smoking again. Why do they make it look so awesome. I remember smoking....loved it, and now.....I am having the start of lung cancer. Or how’s it spelled??? Emphysema?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Lung cancer and Emphysema are different conditions, but, yeah ...

Hell, watching Stranger Things makes me wanna fire up, and it's not even old. But takes place in the 1980's, so there's a couple smokers (Joyce, and especially Hop).

Newer shows have a lot more drinking though, particularly hard liquor, of the brown variety, drank straight up. Poured from a beautiful crystal decanter, into a nice, clear highball glass, esp. whenever people meet for some kind of serious discussion.

It's like in SO MANY shows nowadays.

TV does NOT make it easy for people trying not to drink.

[Mike Nelson]

2. Yes...

... the movies smoked. I quit many years ago... the effect wears off and you can enjoy old films without thinking of your own habit - even Bette Davis films. Hang in there!

[LakeArenal]

7. Not movies but Ward Cleaver smoked and Andy of Mayberry, too.

[Binkie The Clown]

3. What I like best about being an ex-smoker is...

...that I don't even remember how long ago it was that I quit. It must be 10 or 12, or maybe even 14 years now, but I never even give it a thought any more. I couldn't tell what day I quit any more than I could tell you what I had for dinner 10 years ago today. Once the past is gone, it no longer exists; it's fiction. Everything that happens, happens in the now, and now I'm not a smoker.

[Yonnie3]

4. Yeah, It has been a few years since I quit (the final time)

It looks so enjoyable and relaxing when I see them light up in the old movies. I have a momentary pang of desire.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. tex williams 1947

dr. demento memories

[RainCaster]

6. I finally quit in 1987, it holds no appeal any more

Hasn't for a long time.

[BigmanPigman]

8. It is almost shocking watching old films or TV shows

and seeing all the smoking going on and how it was so embraced by our culture. Offering someone a cigarette and/or a light was part of manners in society. Watching doctors and nurses smoke at hospitals is eye opening these days.

[rsdsharp]

9. A couple of weeks ago I watched the first Perry Mason show.

EVERYBODY smoked.

Steve McQueen, as Josh Randall on Wanted Dead or Alive, often rolled his own. He said on one episode that all he needed was a good horse, a handful of beans and “the makin’s.”

The Dick Van Dyke show cast members used to each receive two cartons of cigarettes a week from their sponsor, although they didn’t show that much smoking on the show.