The New Historical Dictionary of the American Film Industry 2nd edition

Smoking now seems to be quite socially unacceptable in the USA, but the American Journal of Public Health has noted that movie stars are still puffing away on the silver screen. I learned from an entry here on “Cigarette Smoking” that a leading manufacturer paid out $350,000 in 1989 for Tim Dalton to smoke a particular brand in License to Kill. In the 1990s people like Sharon Stone and Madonna took to posing in public with big cigars. Wayne Wang’s Smoke (1995), which I thought Harvey Keitel might have got an Oscar for, seemed to imply that smoking is...