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Favorite smoking scenes

in the early episodes of Andy Griffith, he would smoke sometimes, i was watching a Rockford Files from the mid-70's the other night and Garner was enjoying a smoke. i remember johnny carson sneaking a puff, when the camera just came back from a break, or when the camera was on one of his guests and switched back to him he would put it away fast under his desk. and dean martin was famous for having a cigarette on his show in the mid to late 60's...
 
ALMOST FORGOT... Dick Van Dyke smoked in some episodes, might have had something to do with the cigarette SPONSOR, i think it was KENT. i MISS the FREEDOM, to do something wrong or right.
 
I agree with the sentiment about freedom expressed by WhoDat! So, don't vote for people who want to legislate your freedom out of existence because they think they know better then you how you should live your life.
 
Did you watch the ending of Case of the Missing Hare, what happened to the logo that was on Ala Bahma's hat? Since when does Ala Bahama wear a stripe shirt? Did he taste the cherry pie while smoking?
 
The original Dragnet (and Dragnet radio show) were sponsored by Chesterfield and smoking was deliberately worked into a lot of the scenes (in an interrogation, perp asks for cigarette and Joe happily obliges and everybody takes a smoke break).

By coincidence, AntennaTV showed an episode of the revived Dragnet last night in which Joe leaves work late after an 18 hour shift. He gets home and has to be back at work in five hours. Instead of crashing, he needs a butt. He's run out, so he goes to a laundromat two blocks from his apartment to get some from a machine. He finds a guy trying to rob the place. The guy fires at Joe. Joe returns fire and hits the guy, who gets away (and dies later from the wound). They can't find evidence the perp fired at Joe and the perp's girlfriend says Joe murdered the guy in cold blood. Joe is brought up before a trial board. All because getting a nicotine fix was more important that getting some sleep at 2:30 in the morning. Dum-de-dum-dum.

Jack Webb died of a heart attack at age 62. Smoking is a major risk factor for heart attack and stroke.
 
johnbasalla said:
I agree with the sentiment about freedom expressed by WhoDat! So, don't vote for people who want to legislate your freedom out of existence because they think they know better then you how you should live your life.
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Me three. Proponents of the nanny-state mentality. I call 'em NannyGoats. The good news: NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg took one on the chin last week when his soft drink legislation was overturned. Still, a handful of west coast politicos continue waxing shrill on the need for legislation outlawing or restricting the fast food industry.

I'm no smoker, but smoking legislation is indeed getting a little intrusive, so, Back to the thread-- pressure has been mounting on Hollywood for smoking scenes in the movies. And I'm no fan of Hollywood anymore either, but for crying out loud, the incumbency for dilligence belongs to consumers, not legislators.
 
johnbasalla said:
I agree with the sentiment about freedom expressed by WhoDat! So, don't vote for people who want to legislate your freedom out of existence because they think they know better then you how you should live your life.
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I appreciate the freedom to go to work and sit in a meeting, or to go to a restaurant and NOT breathe in somebody else's cigarette smoke and NOT go home smelling like an ash tray.

John Stuart Mill, the father of libertarianism, had an apt phrase for this: Your rights end at the tip of my nose.

I also notice that many of the same people who think they should have the freedom to blow cigarette smoke into other people's space, also oppose legalization of marijuana and reproductive freedom.

That said, I miss cigarette commercials. I still know all the jingles. There's another thread going about Jack Benny episodes now running on AntennaTV and JLTV. In some episodes, the syndicator has not removed the middle (integrated) Lucky Strike commercial, and the Lucky Strike jingle plays as the closing theme. (Be happy, Go Lucky. Be happy, Go Lucky Strike. Be happy, Go Lucky. Go Lucky Strike today.)

And remember, as reported last week on Weekend Update: Women like guys with good grammar. So, Winston takes good, as a cigarette should.

My favorite of all time, though, was before the Marlboro man: Julie London sings the Marlboro Song. Julie London on the deck of the Staten Island Ferry wearing a trench coat (and, in my imagination, nothing else). Foggy night. Lights of Manhattan in the background. Julie's soft, sultry purr...
"Why don't you settle back, and have a full flavored smoke.
Settle back, with a Marlboro.
Make yourself comfortable whenever you smoke
With a Marlboro cigarette.
You get a lot to like with a Marlboro.
Filter.
Flavor.
Flip top box."
The way she sang "flip top box" made my toes curl.

If you never saw it, it's on You Tube.

Also on You Tube, the Lark ("Show us your pack") commercial, which should be viewed with Stan Freberg's satire of it for Jeno's Pizza Rolls.
 
I am not a smoker, and I too don't want to go home smelling like an ash tray either, but slowly legislating personal freedoms out of existance is a problem. Lets take restaurants, if the owners were allowed to have smoking or not, as they desire, I would think we would get lots of establishments for each. The issue of reproductive freedom is more complex. The unborn are people too. Sorry for taking this thread outside of TV. Anybody ever smoke on "McHale's Navy"?
 
johnbasalla said:
I am not a smoker, and I too don't want to go home smelling like an ash tray either, but slowly legislating personal freedoms out of existance is a problem. Lets take restaurants, if the owners were allowed to have smoking or not, as they desire, I would think we would get lots of establishments for each. The issue of reproductive freedom is more complex. The unborn are people too. Sorry for taking this thread outside of TV. Anybody ever smoke on "McHale's Navy"?
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Back when restaurants were allowed to have smoking or not, we did not have lots of each. Restaurant operators were afraid of "offending" smokers. The National Restaurant Association opposed no smoking restaurants. Restaurants already must comply with extensive health and safety laws and regulations. The arguments made for a restauranteurs "freedom" to allow smoking sound a lot like pre-civil rights laws arguments made for their "freedom" to "refuse service to anyone." If somebody wants to operate a private club for smokers, that's once thing. If they run a public establishment, they have to accommodate the public - including those of us who don't want to smell like an ash tray (or inhale second hand smoke).

No, I don't recall smoking on McHale's Navy. By the 60s, even on shows sponsored by cigarettes, there was a big decline in characters smoking in the stories - although characters and actors out of character did smoke in commercials within the shows. For example, Rob and Laura Petrie did not smoke during the story, just the commercials. In contrast to the 50s, when Ricky and Lucy smoked in both (except Lucy during her pregnancy).
 
Probably the funniest smoking scenes I've seen were the Winston commercials at the end of The Beverly Hillbillies. The sight of Granny putting the filter end of her cigarette into the bowl of her corncob pipe was priceless. Even the Flintstones Winston commercials paled in comparison...
 
How about the numerous smoking scenes on Chicago Hope? The doctors were regularly shown smoking cigars in their offices inside the hospital!

By the mid to late 90s, when Chicago Hope ran, I'm pretty sure smoking in public buildings (especially hospitals) was, for the most part, illegal.
 
I remember that video of Bob Mehrman in 1994 talking with a voice box since he'd lost his larnyx to throat cancer. I was shocked! I remember that we had a priest in St. Mark's Parish in Dorchester who suffered from throat cancer and had to use a voice box in the year before he died.
 
Remember the PSA with the jingle "We mind very much if you smoke" where the dolphin grabbed the cigarette out of the guy's mouth? I thought it was the coolest thing.

Don't know about Serling smoking on Twilight Zone, but I recall an interview where he smoked the entire time.

RE: Jim Rockford smoking. When I was a grade schooler, I wanted to smoke because Rockford did and drink because the Barkley boys on Big Valley did.
 
as far as smoking on TV or anywhere else, we were a more FREE Country back then, and i know there are those who hate it and so forth, But remember 1st they came after cigarettes, and you were not a smoker, so you didn't care, Now there are idiots comming after large soft drinks and salt, who knows what's next! there will never be an end to politicians meddling in your life.. and it all started with cigarettes. Yet these same politicians don't mind raking in the Tax Money from smokers, and there is talk about taxing junk food and whatever is next, and whatever is next, might be something YOU enjoy, in a "Free" Country........ so you might want to think first before you applaud the banning or taxing of something, someone else enjoys and you don't, because You're Next.
 
Corky Marlowe said:
Also, once when Groucho Marx was the mystery guest on "What's My Line?" he blew a little cigar smoke in the direction of the blindfolded panel to yank their chains a bit. Ernie Kovacs might have done that, too...
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Ernie Kovacs blew cigar smoke in the face of blindfolded Dorothy Kilgallen. She screamed and then laughed. Ernie also sprayed perfume to throw off the panel. Dated September 8 1957. Search YouTube Ernie Kovacs--What's My Line
 
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