WAS THAT CIGARETTE GLUED TO HIS HAND?????
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MrsC2007 — 16 years ago(January 01, 2010 05:34 PM)
" Hollywood acts1354 as if smoking is the worst thing in the world, but then they try to convince us that abominations like homosexuality, cheating on your spouse, abortion, taking illegal drugs and alcoholism aren't so bad and are a person's right to do so if they wish. It's completely insane. Well, I'm no longer a smoker, but I believe it's a person's right to smoke a cigarette if they wish without having to go hide in a cave somewhere. "
and it IS also a person's right to do all those other things you seem to think are abominations. Whether or not you agree with them is not the point. IT IS THEIR RIGHT.
As to Serling smoking on camera, those were the times. Sadly, it is probably that habit that caused his untimely death. -
ck1-5 — 16 years ago(February 10, 2010 02:01 PM)
Plus, sitting one table over in a restaurant from someone that's drinking won't make me drunk, and sitting next to a homosexual won't make me catch "gayness", but sitting next to a smoker is a different story. It's not a matter of your rights; it's a matter of everyone else's. If drinkers were constantly walking up to nondrinkers and pouring some of their drink on them, you'd see some changes in the law concerning that, too.
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Mad_Monkey — 15 years ago(June 05, 2010 10:57 PM)
I have seen several random threads where people are amazed by people smoking on screen. Where do you people live? Do you never see someone smoking? I don't smoke, never have but grew up with both parents smoking. It never bothered me then but now I am very sensitive to cigarette smoke.
If people want to smoke, that's their problem, I don't object. Just please be considerate of people who don't.
The thing I can't believe is how smoking seems to be so popular and why do kids start in the first place? I have seen so many lives hurt by smoking. I personally would love to see tobacco companies go bankrupt due to lack of sales. -
deathtoallbutmetal — 15 years ago(October 28, 2010 09:05 PM)
"If drinkers were constantly walking up to nondrinkers and pouring some of their drink on them, you'd see some changes in the law concerning that, too."
You must not party in the same cirles as me. These drunks around here spill their drinks like crazy. -
Roy_Batty_Nexus6 — 11 years ago(March 15, 2015 03:57 AM)
He was only aged 35 when The Twilight Zone first started, yet to me he looks more like 55! I guess that's what chainsmoking does to your skin, and the arteries throughout your body I suppose fair no better.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain . Time to die -
danmax67 — 11 years ago(April 08, 2015 08:58 AM)
I remember reading somewhere that at first, the reason Serling was holding a cigarette while doing his intros was to hide is nervousness in front of the camera.
I read this as well. He was very nervous about appearing on camera and felt the cigarette calmed him down. -
ck1-5 — 10 years ago(July 09, 2015 08:53 AM)
You may have read that, but I don't believe that that was the reason why. I read a biography of Serling and, according to many of his friends and coworkers, he literally was not without a cigarette from the moment he awoke to the moment he went to sleep. He came home from WW II chain smoking and continued to do so up until his death at 50.