You are obviously quite young. The film accurately depicts lifestyles and choices of its period in time. If smoking in movies offends you, stick with CGI crap at your local Cineplex. No smoking there, but plenty of explosions and chase scenes, right up your alley.
shareLOL, you must be REALLY young. I'm an 80s baby, I can remember walking into an office, fast food restaurant, train station, etc.. with my mom as a kid and smelling ashes and smelling smoke as soon as you walk in; or seeing movies with teens/adults smoking casually.
As someone else pointed out, he war on smoking is recent and didn't come until the mid/late 90s when the WW2 and early-Baby Boomer generation were getting cancer diagnoses left and right.
I'm hardly young. I watched JFK's inauguration. Another contributor to the increase in cancer rates of Baby Boomers is that during the 50's, the polio vaccine used was carcinogenic. A scandal that has more or less been successfully swept under the rug but explained in detail in the book "Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics". This is a thoroughly researched source written by an individual that personally knew some of the main characters and whose father worked at the research center. It is a real eye-opener regarding developments that have taken place over the last few decades.
shareI am a lifelong non smoker and isn't going to far to say I despise cigarettes but I despise rewriting history just as much. I sorry to say that that's the way it was.
By the way, I am the ONLY non smoker in my rather large family.
They were glorified back then.
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It was the 1950s. Just about everybody was smoking in those days.
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