| Re: Thank You for Smoking question (tiny spoiler) [message #248207] |
Mi, 12 April 2006 14:53 |
|
rgorman [at] block.net (David Johnston) wrote:
> >> I read the book. The highlight for me was the nicotine patch caper,
> >> where anti-smoking "terrorists" kidnapped a pro-smoking guy, stripped
> >> him nearly naked, and covered every inch of bare skin with nicotine
> >> patches (imagine the medical consequences!). Is this in the movie?
Yes.
> >It was at that point in the movie that a viewing companion whispered to
> >me that the events depicted were "real".
>
> I would view his claim with great skepticism. I'm pretty sure that
> never really happened.
same here, though i don't really know how patches work. nicotine itself
is quite deadly as a poison. it is true that smoking confers some
resistence to death by nicotine poisoning, whatever that's worth. this
was an unliked scene in the movie for me, and assumed it wouldn't be so
positive in reality. Still, it's not as nasty as on the Simpsons when
Krusty is covered with nicotine patches, without apparent ill effect.
Now, how many people are now going to smoke cigarrettes to try to
prevent fatality from nicotine overdose after seeing this movie? How
many people copied Krusty's fearsome acts after seeing him on the show
with nicotine patches, percodans and eating brains? i know i've drank
whiskey after i had seen the fourth seaspon episode with marge stealing
apu's hooch. i also drank after seeing homer drink. so i know how
influential the media is, from experiance.
|
|
|
