Ads Quote by Joe Eszterhas

In the olden days, of course, cigarette companies would pay to have their product advertised in movies and to have actors smoke cigarettes.[Ronald Reagan…

— Joe Eszterhas

In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would…

— Peter York

There are some young women movie stars who are doing it everywhere, smoking in every movie, sometimes even with placements with a pack of…

— Joe Eszterhas

“In 1955, when Philip Morris introduced the Marlboro Man, its most successful smoking icon to date, sales of the brand shot up by a…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

People - Hollywood doesn't talk about how bad cigarette smells when it smells like they wake up in bed with somebody who has been…

— Chris Matthews

The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there…

— Joe Eszterhas

In Hollywood you can't even smoke in a bar anymore and yet in the movies they're always showing people smoking. I don't get it.

— Gerald McRaney

It [smoking] was like an aphrodisiac. Actors would say let's have another cigarette on that great scenes, and they'd blow smoke in each other's…

— Chris Matthews

I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films.

— Edward Norton

The same people who tell us that smoking doesn't cause cancer are now telling us that advertising cigarettes doesn't cause smoking.

— Ellen Goodman

I think even in today's America, there's a sense that there's something vaguely sexy about cigarettes.

— John H. McWhorter

There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have.

— Trey Parker