Odd 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

Look at any black-and-white movie; everybody is smoking.

— Loni Anderson

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

Why Hollywood has killed so many movie stars with cigarette smoking, with the romanticization of it from John Wayne to Humphrey Bogart, all those…

— Chris Hayes

As smoking has disappeared from television screens, planes, bars and restaurants, and other public spaces, the smoking rate has dropped to a third of…

— Annie Lowrey

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

Researchers linked smoking to cancer in the 1950s. Doctors believed them in the 1960s, but it was not until journalists believed the doctors in…

— Richard Peto

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

— Edward Norton

“...lung cancer incidence in men increased dramatically in the 1950s as a result of an increase in cigarette smoking during the early twentieth century.…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“It was true in the early 1960s, more women smoked than men.”

— Jay Conrad Levinson

I've written a lot of movies with smoking, and the some of those movies absolutely gloried in the smoking and I wasn't concerned when…

— Chris Hayes

Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly…

— Joe Eszterhas