GOOD GOD!!!
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TopFlight — 10 years ago(May 02, 2015 07:17 PM)
Not really did "everyone smoke." My mother was in her 30s in the 1960s and didn't smoke. A significant percentage of women didn't smoke because many still thought it was not "ladylike." Also, some people didn't want to spend their meager earnings on cigarettes - they had to spend it on food and shelter.
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ck1-5 — 19 years ago(February 12, 2007 09:50 AM)
A biography of Serling that I found said that he came home from the action of WW II chain smoking, and never let up. He also loved coffee. I would have liked to have had the oppurtunity to speak with him, but between the five packs of cigarettes and several cups of coffee per day, I probably would have tried to stand back far enough to not catch his breath.
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mcfaddensflats — 19 years ago(June 29, 2006 10:36 PM)
ck1-5 on Mon Feb 12 2007 09:50:05 "
A biography of Serling that I found said that he came home from the action of WW II chain smoking, and never let up. He also loved coffee. I would have liked to have had the oppurtunity to speak with him, but between the five packs of cigarettes and several cups of coffee per day, I probably would have tried to stand back far enough to not catch his breath."
In Rod's day people were so used to tobacco smoke most never even noticed it. I was a chain smoker a few years ago. My health was wrecked,not by smoking,but because my thyroid gland was badly damaged by the car seat belt politicians made me wear. I suffered over 20 years of appalling,unending chronic illness because of it.Frankly many times death would have been a relief from a life which was like being tortured to death every waking moment. I tried suicide once so hard was the illness to tolerate. If I had not worn a belt,I would have had a couple of cracked ribs,healed within a few months. Know all politicians forcing me to do things for my own good put me thru 2 decades of Hell. -
ck1-5 — 19 years ago(February 15, 2007 05:31 AM)
I just reread my post, and nowhere in it did I suggest that all smoking should be made illegal. I'm sorry that your car accident permanently altered your life, but you can't dispute the fact that seat belts have saved countless lives as well. For the record, I wear one when I drive, but don't subscribe to the fact that such an action should be punishable by a ticket and/or fine if you don't follow it. Also for the record, my father died before his time from complications of emphysema brought on by years of heavy smoking. I also grew up in the era of the majority of people smoking, and had no problem noticing that wonderful cigarette&coffee breath that most of them had.
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TexasGreek — 18 years ago(May 28, 2007 10:39 AM)
Also for the record, my father died before his time from complications of emphysema brought on by years of heavy smoking. I also grew up in the era of the majority of people smoking, and had no problem noticing that wonderful cigarette&coffee breath that most of them had. <<
You wrote this post on my father's 76th birthday, who also suffers and lives with emphysema as well. -
trombonist42 — 18 years ago(January 01, 2008 09:11 PM)
I was recently in a car accident and the seat belt absolutely saved my life. Many other drivers have similar stories. You can't blame "politicians" for your ailment, everyone should wear a seatbelt whenever they ride in a car.
To be kind of on topic, I've been watching the Twilight Zone marathon on Sci-Fi and I have yet to see an introduction where Rod isn't smoking. -
JamesBWBevis — 18 years ago(December 06, 2007 03:01 AM)
A couple of years ago, I went through all of the TZ narrations to transcribe them as accurately as possible. (Marc Scott Zicree's book has tons of errors in the narrations, and even the late, lamented Fifth Dimension website had quite a few.) While I was doing that, I kept track of all the TZs that showed Serling holding a lit cigarette. There were a lot less than I expectedonly 28, less than one-quarter of the 121 episodes that show Serling on camera. I guess holding the cigarette makes a bigger visual impression than not holding the cigarette, so that's what we tend to remember.
On the theory that at least one person here wants to see the complete list, here it is:
Episodes where we see Rod holding a lit cigarette (all intros except for "A World of His Own"): 28
36. "A World of His Own"
43. "Nick of Time"
46. "A Most Unusual Camera"
51. "The Invaders"
55. "Mr. Dingle, the Strong"
64. "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"
65. "The Obsolete Man"
66. "Two"
67. "The Arrival"
70. "A Game of Pool"
82. "One More Pallbearer"
85. "Showdown with Rance McGrew"
88. "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank"
93. "The Little People"
94. "Four O'Clock"
95. "Hocus Pocus and Frisby"
98. "The Dummy"
99. "Young Man's Fancy"
100. "I Sing the Body Electric"
116. "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville"
121. "In Praise of Pip"
124. "A Kind of a Stopwatch"
127. "The Old Man in the Cave"
128. "Uncle Simon"
130. "The 7th Is Made up of Phantoms"
131. "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain"
143. "Queen of the Nile"
150. "Stopover in a Quiet Town"
Honorable mention:
84. "The Hunt"it looks like Rod is rolling a cigarette, or at least pretending to be. (Compare his hand motions with those in the cigarette-rolling scene in "Showdown with Rance McGrew.") A little backwoods humor, I suppose.
I don't think I missed any, but if I did, let me know. -
NzA21 — 18 years ago(February 02, 2008 03:40 AM)
plain and simple are you all that dumb to even think that when rod serling made the twilight zone and smoked cigarettes that this would have a nagative impact on society today? wow crawl back inside your uneducated caves, and try taking the little course called history all over again. you make me sick.
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redskiesmaxx — 15 years ago(October 27, 2010 04:27 PM)
I remember the Fourth Season episode, "He's Alive", with Dennis Hopper. The dissolve to Serling sitting in his chair chain-smoking as he delivered his monologue was just plain creepy. He looked like Mephistopheles just risen up from Hell with all those curlicues of infernal smoke swirling around his head!
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ridgerunner72160 — 17 years ago(April 29, 2008 12:14 AM)
Smoking is a bad habit. But like another poster said. Kids see much worse on television today. Hollywood acts 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.