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From A Writing Point Of View, You Now Have Teams Of Screenwriters Working With A Director. What's Lost In The Process Is The Power Of That One Heart, Brain, Gut And Soul That Makes Something An Original Piece Of Writing.

I'm Not Suggesting At All That We Take Away All Of The Characters' Vices. I Am Suggesting That This Particular Vice Is So Insidious, So Nefarious, And So Deadly That Simply By Glamorizing It Or Poisoning Our Young Adults, And I Think It's A Very Separate Category, But In No Way Am I Suggesting That We Move On From Banning Smoking In Movies To Banning Drinking, You Know, Or Whatever Else We Want To Do.

Don't Smoke. Don't Kill Yourselves. Don't Maim Yourselves. Tell Your Friends. Please Don't Smoke.

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 Used To Do It.]

Your Characters Get Angry At You If You Speak About Them And Stop You From Giving Birth To Them On The Page In Revenge. Real Writers Sit Down And Write. Wannabe Writers Sit Around And Talk.