This picture was taken in 2001 of my friend Patrick Landrum at some event, outside smoking. I was just reading notes I took in an Austin Film Festival Panel called "Groundbreaking TV: A New Era." One of the panelists said that the biggest cultural change between the '70's and now was smoking! It's true, it looks shocking for people to smoke. The panelist said networks don't allow smoking. AMC's period piece Mad Men seemed to be mostly about smoking, drinking and office sex. It had a limited number of episodes and then went into reruns and we saw the first episode for the first time last night. They were just starting to address the fear that smoking killed in advertising cigarettes. It does seem odd now to see people smoking. Very subversive. Makes me sneeze, too. But it is not to be taken lightly. Because it's very risky.
Friday, November 02, 2007
Thank You For Not Smoking on Network TV
This picture was taken in 2001 of my friend Patrick Landrum at some event, outside smoking. I was just reading notes I took in an Austin Film Festival Panel called "Groundbreaking TV: A New Era." One of the panelists said that the biggest cultural change between the '70's and now was smoking! It's true, it looks shocking for people to smoke. The panelist said networks don't allow smoking. AMC's period piece Mad Men seemed to be mostly about smoking, drinking and office sex. It had a limited number of episodes and then went into reruns and we saw the first episode for the first time last night. They were just starting to address the fear that smoking killed in advertising cigarettes. It does seem odd now to see people smoking. Very subversive. Makes me sneeze, too. But it is not to be taken lightly. Because it's very risky.
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