I’m pretty sure the NCAA isn’t a government entity. And of the three teams to appeal the NCAA decision so far, all three have won. FSU Seminoles, the Utes, and Illini. Maybe even more.
Anyway, I detest the entire notion of nannyism.
But we’re so stupid and childike! How can we expect to survive if we’re not adequately cared for?
Baaaaaaaa, baaaaaa…
In addition, Clint Eastwood was very anti-smoking, and Sergio Leone was the one that fucking forced him to do so.
Trust me, I work in a convenience store, and I’m very much anti-cigarettes, however, I’m also against all forms of useless censorship such as the cigarette thing in movies (and before you ask, yes, it’s still censorship.)
I’m going to watch the movie to double check this! And even if he didn’t actually smoke it, it’s still the idea that he’s consuming more drugs.
John Leo makes a living out of exaggerating things like “the antibullying campaign,” mainly by misrepresenting facts, deliberately wording them vaguely so they appear more ominous, and adding a lot of hyperbole and hectoring. For example, of the four sentences in the above quote, three are assertions presented with no supporting facts whatsoever, and the fourth refers to a program that had already been unanimously suspended by the West Virginia State Board of Education in October of 2002, several months before the article was written.
and suggested that students show support for gays by wearing T-shirts with pink triangles.
Gee why does this sound so familar? Oh now I remember the halocaust.
Uh… no. It says to support gay people by wearing shirts with pink triangles- it doesn’t say that all gay people must wear pink triangles. Those are two completely different things altogether. There isn’t going to be a “gay holocaust.”
He definitely does smoke cigarettes in the movie, among many other things.
I remember specifically two scenes in particular. One where he has to change the cigarette because the old one is smoked. And the scene where everyone turns into lizards. Right before the lizard part, he lights his cigarette off of someone’s match in the bar.
I’m sure in a movie that shows someone snort amyl nitrate, drop liquid adrenaline on their tongue from an eyedropper, smoke crack from a lightbulb, huff ether, and vomit everywhere from mescaline, they don’t really care about someone smoking a cigarette.
I’m well aware of all of that, but I’m telling you- the cigarette is unlit during the whole movie. I’ve watched it several times. At one point it’s pretty much broken in half, too.
EDIT: And no, I don’t count the film poster. 
I know it is broken in half for part of it, but I am positive. I’ve seen the movie dozens of times.
He’s in a bar, right before the bloody floor/lizard scene. He walks by a table with a guy lighting a woman’s cigarette with a match. And he jumps in and lights his cigarette from the match that the guy is holding. The guy tells him to go away or fuck off or something.
Lit cigarette=smoking.
EDIT: I’ve never even seen the movie poster. I’m not talking about that.
There are a lot of characters that smoking just seems to be a part of who they are. the only one i can remember his name offhand would be wolfwood, but there are tons of other characters that, well, that’s just what they do. they wouldn’t be them if they didn’t.
Like Constantine.
That movie would not even work if Keanu didn’t smoke.
good one. i didn’t think of that. my dad is an old western freak, so i’ve seen a ton of those. what would any of john wayne’s characters be if they didn’t smoke? for that matter, what would any of the characters be? almost everyone but the women smoke in westerns.
The leader of the A-Team.
Okay, I’m not sure if he ever SMOKED, but he always had that cigar.