Oh, movies from the 1970's. You so crazy.

[knastymike]

So I'm watching the original "Dawn of the Dead", and in it, Gaylen Ross' character is pregnant. And yet, she (like most everyone in the movie) smokes like a chimney! It reminds me of a statement I read somewhere that a character in a movie is at least three times more likely to smoke than any particular individual in real life. And sure, they

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[lrmaggie]

I remember watching Hatari with my great uncle and thinking it was a great pro-smoking ad. I mean, I know smoking was "the thing to do" back then, but daaaaamn; in every scene, EVERY single character lit up!

[violet_tigress1]

I hate that, too.

[mothoc]

In Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused, there's a scene where the seniors talk a freshman into buying beer at a convenience store. Drinking age was 18 at the time, so that's one thing. Thing is, once he's in the store, he's in line behind a pregnant woman who is smoking while buying beer. The movie's set in 1976, and that was just how things were then. It really makes you see how far we've come since then, in just the last 35-ish years.