"When Cigarettes were Sublime"

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The title of this thread is based on Richard Klein's book, "Cigarettes are Sublime", which is described as "a brilliant, elegantly textured exploration of cigarette as metaphor", by Ann Marlowe, in LA Weekly. The stimulus for its creation is the recent demand by a group of California doctors that all films containing people smoking should be given an "R" rating, equivalent to films with an excess of profanity, sex, murder, mayhem and torture. One would think that the good doctors would be laughed out of court but it is highly probable that the ban might take effect. So while I am a non smoker myself and neither like nor condone this habit, I want to pay tribute to all the great images of smoking in films and photographs. Think of how much poorer many scenes in films would have been without the theater of cigarettes.
 
 
^ the nuns at the end :rofl:

i do think tolerance+knowledge
is better than censorship
 
ftsmoke.jpg

no one could light one up like Lauren Bacall
www.telegraph.co.uk

start at 3:20
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC4JKVCGDcA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDQHnA8skfY
 
Thanks for the pictures and the YouTubes. They are wonderful ! Although the last one (very funny, thanks ChloeFrancoise!) made me want to stop smoking even though I never really started ! I'll post more pictures soon.
 
 
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