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I just watched Casablanca for the first time a couple of days ago, and as someone that hates smoking, I just don't get how it came to be everywhere back in the day. Ingrid Bergman is probably the only non-smoker in the entire movie! Both her (breast, 69) and Humphrey Bogart (esophageal, 57) died of cancer.
Growing up with two smoking parents that'd both gladly hotbox their kids, my brother and I, when we drove anywhere was just awful. I really don't get how you can do that to other people without feeling ashamed.
That first set of parenthesese were really confusing until I read the rest of the sentence.
"(breast, 69)" out of context does seem a bit 👀
For a second I thought you were making a disparaging remark about her being a woman!
For a split second I thought this was going to be a comment about a link between smoking and breast sizes (in some weird units).
Well, back in the day cigarette companies paid to be in the movies. This timeline puts it back to the very first "talkies" cigarette companies were already shouldering their way in and making sure that they were associated with sex and cool. Everyone was smoking on screen because films were big tobacco ads.