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Cigarette smoking in the promo poster.


Should the cigarette be edited out now? It might save lives. Hollywood glamorized smoking in the 1950's.

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Most adults smoked in 1951. The movie was released then, and it's about then, not about now.

But I get it--you're being facetious.

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Yes, I'm being facetious. There has been an ongoing campaign to ban smoking in movies.

So they chop off somebody's head but they can't smoke? It's a pretentious moralistic infringement on artistic freedom.

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